spitting image

/'spitiɳ'imidʤ/

Thân thiện

He is the spitting image of his father.

Definition

Noun: - A perfect likeness or counterpart: This phrase describes a person who looks exactly like another person, often a relative, as if they were a duplicate. It emphasizes an extremely close physical resemblance.

Usage

• Used to state that one person is an exact visual duplicate of another.
• Typically used in informal or colloquial contexts.
• Commonly follows the structure: Person A is the spitting image of Person B.

Examples

Advanced Usage

• The phrase can sometimes be used humorously or hyperbolically to describe a very strong resemblance between people who are not related.
• It is almost exclusively used for people, not objects.

Variants and Related Words

• Dead ringer (noun, informal): A person or thing that looks exactly like another.
  • He's a dead ringer for the famous singer.
• Lookalike (noun): A person who looks very similar to a famous person.
  • She works as a celebrity lookalike.

Synonyms

• Double: A person who looks exactly like another.
• Clone: (Informally) A person or thing that is an exact copy of another.
• Doppelgänger: A non-biologically related look-alike or double of a living person.

Related Idioms

• Like two peas in a pod: Used to say two people are very similar in appearance or character.
  • The twins are like two peas in a pod.
• The picture of (someone): Very similar in appearance to a named person.
  • He's the picture of his uncle at that age.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a perfect likeness or counterpart