- 1. he who smelt it, dealt it (colloquial, originally) A person who calls attention to or complains about a fart is likely trying to pretend it wasn't his or her own. (colloquial, by extension) Used to suggest that a person calling attention to or complaining about a given problem may in fact be the source of the problem. Source: ecdict
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