look who's talking

1. You're in no position to criticize, as in I wish Kate would be on time for once.—You do? Look who's talking! This colloquial idiom dates from the mid-1900s, although another version, you can't talk, is a century or so older.

Example Sentences

Hoping, perhaps, to avoid the creepy woman/child of the final “Twilight” movies, Villeneuve gives us instead a prenatal version of Alia — “Look Who’s Talking Dune: A Womb With a View.”

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Other pieces take center stage, like the 24 photos in the middle of the room, all from her series “Look Who’s Talking.”

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A representative for Fox told The Times that the tribute will feature an image of the “Look Who’s Talking” actor on the show with the message, “In Loving Memory of Kirstie Alley.”

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“The Masked Singer” will join a slew of Hollywood personalities who remembered Alley, including her “Look Who’s Talking” co-star John Travolta.

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Kirstie Alley, an Emmy Award-winning comic actress best remembered for playing high-strung bar manager Rebecca Howe on NBC’s hit TV show “Cheers” from 1987 to 1993 and who also starred in the “Look Who’s Talking” verbal-baby film franchise, died Dec. 5 at 71.

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