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do you guys not have an idiom for that?
in Hungarian we have (literally translated) : How one lives, thus they judge.
A classic that kind of means the same thing is "me thinks he doth protest too much" from Shakespeare to indicate someone who brings up a topic they are guilty of.
Oh, this reminds me of “whoever smelt it dealt it”
Basically the term projection serves the same duties. They accused people of the things they do. Projecting their behaviors on to others.
"Methinks the lady doth protest too much"
Context: The Queen in his play-within-a-play is going into this really overwrought excessive speech about how much she loves the husband she is about to kill.
In this usage "protest" is not about publicly opposing something like the modern usage, it's more like "profess". A good modern equivalent might be "she's laying it on a little thick".
We have acronyms
Gaslight Obstruct Project
"Suspicion haunts the guilty mind." in Ireland. Don't know if it's an Irish saying translated to English like many others.
Danish equivalent: Thief thinks each man steals
We do, but it is mostly used by children. "Takes one to know one."
Lefties sometimes say "every accusation is a confession."
Oh, IOKIYAR.
Them having an itch and that's all what they preach in Russian as well.
We have (very loosely translated) 'the innkeeper trusts his patrons as much as he trusts/knows himself' in Dutch. Or semantically more accurate would be 'an untrustworthy innkeeper distrusts his patrons'.
We just call them “republicans”.
In Mexico it's exactly like that "Como vives, juzgas"
GOP: Gaslight Obstruct Project
(Alternatively: Greedy Old Paedophiles.)
"If you smelt it you dealt it"
(A reference to flatulence)