cut from the same cloth

idiom

: very similar to each other

Our mothers were cut from the same cloth.

The country's new president is cut from the same cloth as his predecessor.

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Recent Examples on the Web But Healy’s not the only one who gets a shout out on track 2, a melodramatic ode to a guy who, for better or worse, is cut from the same cloth as her. —

Shannon Carlin, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024 Phoebe and Melody are cut from the same cloth in a lot of ways. —

Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024 Calhoun, who previously worked at the Blackstone Group, Nielsen and GE, was cut from the same cloth as Jim McNerney, who ran Boeing as CEO from 2005-2015, a tumultuous era marked by strained labor relations and cost-cutting. —

Allison Morrow, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024 Affleck's most notable appearance is as Rex Stone, a cable news pundit cut from the same cloth of presenters as Bill O'Reilly, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Brian Williams. —

Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cut from the same cloth

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