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Meaning of "drinking your own bathwater"

Hi,The idiomatic phrase "drinking your own bathwater" means, I think, putting credence in information that has, in fact, come from yourself, as in, "Cult members spend much of their time drinking...

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In intelligence circles, the expression drinking your own bathwater is applied to using incorrect information as if it were correct, even though the information is known flawed.I lost the link.If you...

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I've used about every search engine I know of, but while I can find hundreds of examples of usage, I have not been able to find even one site that gives a definition.fastartcee

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I remember hearing it as an insult from a New Jersey native fresh out of the Navy. Back around 1970-72. Something like: "You dirty bird, you'd drink your own bathwater." Not the same sense.

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I think it resembles this famous quotation so much that people don't bother with definitions:All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.- John ArbuthnotThe alternative to drinking...

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I lost the link.Found

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After reading several usages upon my own googling, I think the most correct meaning would be this: You can not trust yourself alone; get help or advice from a nonpartisan source.I don't think the site...

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