Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«Cree el ladrón que todos son de su condición.»
¿Cómo se dice «Cree el ladrón que todos son de su condición» en inglés? A thief thinks everyone steals.
Word for word
The thief believes that everyone is of his condition.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: A thief thinks everyone steals.
Said when someone suspicious accuses others of the very thing they themselves are guilty of. It points out that people project their own flaws onto others.
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Hear it in a sentence
Cree el ladrón que todos son de su condición, por eso desconfía tanto de ti.
A thief thinks everyone steals, that's why he distrusts you so much.
More Spanish sayings
- La ocasión hace al ladrón. — Opportunity makes the thief.
- Ladrón que roba a ladrón tiene cien años de perdón. — Robbing a thief is no crime.
- Quien a todos quiere agradar, a nadie agrada. — Pleasing everyone pleases no one.
- El que tiene padrino se bautiza. — It's not what you know, it's who you know.
- Cada loco con su tema. — To each their own.
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