he who smelt it dealt it

== English == === Alternative forms === whoever smelt it dealt it; you smelt it, you dealt it === 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) 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. ==== Synonyms ==== he who denied it supplied it ==== Coordinate terms ==== he who said the rhyme did the crime ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== cut the cheese protest too much