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the pot calling the kettle black

British pronunciation/ðə pˈɒt kˈɔːlɪŋ ðə kˈɛtəl blˈak/
American pronunciation/ðə pˈɑːt kˈɔːlɪŋ ðə kˈɛɾəl blˈæk/
the pot calling the kettle black
[PHRASE]
1

used when someone is criticizing another for a fault that they have as well

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Examples
1Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
2And if the roles were reversed, having Embiid size, he be doing the same thing too, which Embiid immediately shot back at, saying, that's like the pot calling the kettle black.
3Rockets GM, Daryl Morey, doesn't really count here because he left the Celtics front office right before they drafted Rondo, but he chimed in to suggest Rondo calling Paul a bad teammate was the pot calling the kettle black.
4If that's not the pot calling the kettle black, then we just need to wipe that idiom from the face of the planet.
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