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someone can talk! idiom informal(also mainly UKsomeone can't talk!); (US alsosomeone should talk!) someone has no right to say a particular thing, used especially when someone criticizes another person for something that is true about themselves: "I'm not interested in hearing other people's rants about everything." "You can talk! All you ever do is rant!" She catalogues his faults - pettiness, bad temper, jealousy - to which he replies "You can talk." "He told me off for being late." "He can't talk! He's never on time!" I know I can hardly talk, being divorced myself, but I couldn't believe the marriage only lasted three months. "Why don't you relax?" "You should talk!" When you've taught as long as she has, then you can talk. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism canard falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction flimflam lie mythologize perjure perjury polygraph stretch the truthidiom weasel words white lie whopper
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