phrase

• A fault that is greater in oneself than in the person one is finding fault with.

  ‘economic forecasters should consider the beam in their own eye before criticizing the government's figures’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I know there's a beam in my eye, so it's too bad I so enjoy pointing out the specks in others’.’
  • ‘The fact is that we all have a beam in our eye, but most people only see the sliver.’
  • ‘But, of course, others out there can sometimes notice the blockage, like a beam in our eye.’
  • ‘The problem is that many people reverse this idea and argue that so long as we have the smallest mote in our eye, we cannot criticize another for having a beam in his eye.’
  • ‘He does not think that he has a beam in his eye.’
  • ‘These folks pretty much always have a beam in their eye.’
  • ‘The wood concept is later reinforced with the analogy that one should not complain about the poor spiritual vision of another (splinter in the eye) when one has a beam in their eye.’
  • ‘He is a beam in my eye!’

  Origin

  With biblical allusion to Matt. 7:3.