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cut from the same cloth en · ADJ

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Of two or more persons or things, very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.
   • Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs. 1997 October 3, Stephen Holden, “Film Review: Casanova Complex”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jul 2011:
   • "Now ain't they jist the finest gentlemen?" said Katy. "Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father." 1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 15, in Her Father's Daughter:
   • [T]hese men are no more lost souls than we are—are, in fact, woven out of the same yarn and cut from the same cloth. 1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Subterranean Brotherhood:
   • Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth — fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects. 2009 January 6, Jeff Israely, “Rome Eyes Russian Orthodox Church Vote”, in Time:

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Relateds

cut one's coat according to one's cloth · of a kind · like two peas in a pod

Translations (14)

hu hasonszőrűek (very similar) · de aus dem gleichen Holz geschnitzt (very similar) · ru одного́ по́ля я́годы (very similar) · bg лика-прилика (very similar) · fr être fait du même bois (very similar) · hu egy fából faragták (very similar) · ro de aceeași teapă (very similar) · pt farinha do mesmo saco (very similar) · ro de o teapă (very similar) · bg един дол дренки (very similar) · pl ulepiony z tej samej gliny (very similar) · fr de la même trempe (very similar) · sv av samma skrot och korn (very similar) · hu ugyanolyan (very similar)