he who smelt it dealt it

Alternative forms

 * whoever smelt it, dealt it
 * you smelt it, you dealt it

Proverb

 * 1)  A person who calls attention to or complains about a flatus is likely trying to pretend it wasn't their own.

Usage notes

 * Non-rhyming variants with rather than  are almost completely unattested, even in forms of English that otherwise prefer.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: kiu ĝin flaris, faris
 * French: premier senteur, premier péteur
 * German: Wer den Furz zuerst gerochen, dem ist er aus dem Arsch gekrochen.
 * Japanese: 言い出しっ屁
 * Latvian: kas atzinās, tas nopirdās
 * Lithuanian: vagie, kepurė dega
 * Polish: kto pierwszy poczuje temu się snuje
 * Portuguese: quem cheirou, que resolva
 * Russian: кто признался тот и обосрался
 * Sicilian: cinca la ntisa te culu na scisa
 * Slovene: kdor ga zavoha, ta ga tudi spoha
 * Spanish: el que lo huele, debajo lo tiene
 * Swedish: den som nämnde det, han klämde det, den som nämnde't, han klämde't