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Morocco
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Native in: Arabic (Variants: Hassaniya, Moroccan, UAE, Kuwaiti, Najdi, Standard-Arabian (MSA)) 
, Berber (Other) (Variants: Tamazight , Standard Moroccan Tamazight, Tarifit , Tashelhit , Riffian, Central Atlas Tamazight) 
Works in: English to Arabic, French to Arabic, Arabic to English, and 21 more.
Hypocrisy
Context. One said to a person, in another language(not English), oh son of hypocrites. We use this expression when we want to insult someone who behaves in a dishonest way (a hypocrite person), and it's, especially, because his family is filled with hypocrite people as well.
Do you use another phrase that's normally used in your country, which is similar to (oh son of hypocrites)?
Thank you in adavance for your help :).
Non-PRO (1): Yvonne Gallagher
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like father, like son OR the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
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JapanLegal
: Yes, I would use the word "hypocrite" or a synonym, and then use one of the phrases you mentioned to emphasize that this negative trait seems to run in the family.
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Egypt
MA with 20 years experience
Native in: Arabic
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English
المنافق
hypocrite هو المنافق
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Note added at 12 mins (2021-11-22 09:43:46 GMT)
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hypocrisy is a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time.
Please refer to
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hypocris...
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Note added at 14 mins (2021-11-22 09:45:27 GMT)
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Essential Meaning of hypocrisy
is the behavior of people who do things that they tell other people not to do : behavior that does not agree with what someone claims to believe or feel
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writeaway
: English language (monolingual) /"I'm searching for a phrase or idiom that describes a hypocrite family."
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hypocrisy is a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time. Please refer to https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hypocris...
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AllegroTrans
: Asker reqested an English phrase
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Iran
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Native in: Persian (Farsi)
Works in: English to Persian (Farsi), Persian (Farsi) to English, French to English, and 5 more.
Two-Faced (Adj)
Reference: 1)https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/two-face...
Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK)
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
hypocrisy runs in the family
"runs in..." everyone in a hypocrite in the family
Paul's "like father like son " is fine as long as the topic of hypocrisy is already mentioned.
BTW "hypocritical" is the adjective
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hypocrit...
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/somet...
If something such as a quality or disease runs in someone’s family, a lot of people in the family have it
Weak eyes run in the family.
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Note added at 1 hr (2021-11-22 11:22:36 GMT)
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/run-in-t...
If a quality, ability, disease, etc. runs in the family, many members of the family have it:
Intelligence seems to run in that family.
We're all ambitious - it seems to run in the family.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2021-11-22 11:43:37 GMT)
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BUT we would NEVER say "Oh son of..." in English
Discussion
"in another language(not English), oh son of hypocrites" Do you use another phrase that's normally used in your country, which is similar to (oh son of hypocrites)?
which is definitely NOT English