Tener tejado de vidrio

English translation: if you live in a glass house don't throw stones

04:12 Aug 6, 2010

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Spanish term or phrase: Tener tejado de vidrio

Alguien tiene tejado de vidrio cuando no es el más indicado para criticar o en proponer una solución, ya sea por su conducta contradictoria previa y por otros desempeños que van en el sentido contrario a lo que se busca.

Ej: Tú mejor ni hables, porque "tienes tejado de vidrio" (es decir no eres el más indicado para hablar sobre determinado tema, porque tú conducta en esa situación fue desastrosa")

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Soledad Guzmán Rodríguez KudoZ activity Questions: 52 (2 open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 44 Chile
Local time: 23:00

English translation:if you live in a glass house don't throw stones

Explanation:
:)

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or: you're in no position to comment/throw your oar in

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put one's oar in - idioms and phrases. Interfere with something or insert one's opinion, as in I'll thank you not to put your oar in when we're discussing a ...
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or : you're in no position to talk

Selected response from:

David Hollywood
Local time: 02:00

Grading comment

Thanks that's what I needed!!!!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +5

if you live in a glass house don't throw stones

David Hollywood

4 +2

The pot calling the kettle black

Lisa McCarthy

You're one to talk!

Nicholas Callaway

3 -1

to have (a) glass ceiling

Anne Smith Campbell

Answers

48 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

to have (a) glass ceiling

Explanation:
Just an idea, someone who has done something before, not good, therefore they are stranded with a "glass ceiling" like any dissabled person...
Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling
"In economics, the term glass ceiling refers to situations where the advancement of a qualified person within the hierarchy of an organization is stopped at a lower level because of some form of discrimination, most commonly sexism or racism. However, since the term was coined, "glass ceiling" has also come to describe the limited advancement of the deaf, blind, disabled, retarded, useless and aged.[1] [2]"

Sin más contexto no sé si se puede aplicar a tu traducción, pero por si sirve aquí lo dejo.

Anne Smith Campbell
Spain
Local time: 07:00
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 2

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

if you live in a glass house don't throw stones

David Hollywood
Local time: 02:00
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48

Grading comment

Thanks that's what I needed!!!!

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

The pot calling the kettle black

Explanation:
This has the equivalent meaning but without the 'glass' connection.

e.g. "(Look at) the pot calling the kettle black!"

The phrase "The pot calling the kettle black" is an idiom used to accuse a person or thing of being marked with or guilty of the very thing they are pointing out. This may or may not be hypocritical or a contradiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black

Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 07:00
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

6 hrs confidence:

You're one to talk!

Explanation:
Could also work. Just another option.

Example sentence(s):

You're one to talk! Your private life isn't exactly something to brag about.

Nicholas Callaway
Spain
Local time: 07:00
Native speaker of: English

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