A related concept in Chinese is 對號入座: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E5%BA%A7#Chinese https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%9

A related concept in Chinese is 對號入座: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E5%BA%A7#Chinese https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E... An example might be some person A saying "only an idiot with this set of very specific negative attributes would do this thing". And then person B came out in the public saying they had been slandered by person A, thus indirectly admitting to having those very specific negative attirbutes. Basically if person A invokes something like the small penis rule, it's often better for person B to stay quiet to avoid 對號入座.