A fox smells its own lair first. - English example sentence

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wallebot July 3, 2013 July 3, 2013 at 12:09:38 PM UTC

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Que significa esta frase?
No se fia de su propia madriguera
No se fia ni de su propia sombra

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Shishir September 11, 2013 September 11, 2013 at 12:48:14 AM UTC

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Can someone explain the meaning of this sentence, please? I think it's a proverb, but I'm not sure of its meaning.

Shishir September 11, 2013 September 11, 2013 at 1:14:21 AM UTC

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Actually, half of the links there have no information about it and a quarter of the others are from Tatoeba... But I found this:

Used to mean that if a person is accusing you of say, cheating, it's most likely because they've already done it or are thinking about it.

Is this definition right? (By the way, I tried finding any translation of this proverb into Spanish but I didn't find any)