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English
Alternative forms
Proverb
he who smelt it dealt it
- (colloquial, originally) A person who calls attention to or complains about a flatus is likely trying to pretend it wasn't their own.
- (colloquial, by extension) Used to suggest that a person calling attention to or complaining about a given problem may in fact be the source of the problem.
Usage notes
- Non-rhyming variants with smelled rather than smelt are almost completely unattested, even in forms of English that otherwise prefer smelled.
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Translations
a person calling attention to or complaining about a fart
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 賊喊捉賊／贼喊捉贼 (zh) (zéihǎnzhuōzéi)
- Esperanto: kiu ĝin flaris, faris
- French: premier senteur, premier péteur
- German: Wer den Furz zuerst gerochen, dem ist er aus dem Arsch gekrochen.
- Japanese: 言い出しっ屁 (いいだしっぺ, iidashippe)
- Latvian: kas atzinās, tas nopirdās
- Lithuanian: vagie, kepurė dega
- Polish: kto pierwszy poczuje temu się snuje
- Portuguese: quem cheirou, que resolva
- Russian: кто признался тот и обосрался (kto priznalsja tot i obosralsja)
- Sicilian: cinca la ntisa te culu na scisa
- Slovene: kdor ga zavoha, ta ga tudi spoha
- Spanish: el que lo huele, debajo lo tiene
- Swedish: den som nämnde det, han klämde det, den som nämnde't, han klämde't
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