spitting image

noun

|Updated on: 13 Jul 2018

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Definition of spitting image

: image 3b

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Examples of spitting image in a Sentence

with the help of either movie magic or makeup, the actress appeared to be the spitting image of the queen

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And Mr Lille, the shady French oil man, is the spitting image of Robert Pitman, the upstanding head of the institute’s work on transparent contracts.

— The Economist, "Fighting the resource curse through online gaming," 28 June 2018
And the apple certainly doesn’t fall far from the tree as Apple is growing up to be the spitting image of her famous mom.

— mariah haas, PEOPLE.com, "Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Rare Photo of Daughter Apple — and She’s All Grown Up!," 14 May 2018
Last year, on Season 25 of Dancing With the Stars, Vanessa Lachey was transformed into the spitting image of Snow White for Disney theme night.

— eileen reslen, Country Living, "What 'Dancing With the Stars' Is Really Like Behind the Scenes," 29 Apr. 2018
This time around, Blue was the spitting image of her superstar mom, styling her whole outfit to match her mama's neon pink onstage ensemble.

— megan decker, Harper's BAZAAR, "Blue Ivy Was Adorably Twinning With Beyoncé at Coachella," 23 Apr. 2018
Discovered in southern Germany in 1861, just two years after Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Archaeopteryx was the spitting image of a crow-size Velociraptor.

— steven austad, AL.com, "Dinosaurs in the garden," 14 Apr. 2018
Fans couldn’t help but notice the ace casting decision, as Kenney looks like the spitting image of Sara Gilbert, who plays Darlene, and acts just like Darlene did on the original run of the series.

— megan friedman, Good Housekeeping, "The Actress Who Plays Harris on “Roseanne” Is the Spitting Image of Darlene," 4 Apr. 2018
In athletic ability and a shy demeanor but willing nature, Tim says Romeo is his spitting image.

— fletcher page, The Courier-Journal, "Recruiting Romeo Langford: Inside decisions regarding Kentucky basketball, UNC and others," 2 Apr. 2018
But easily the most unwelcome figure here is a large, hulking Highland Creek employee named George (Joshua Leonard), who is, in Sawyer's view, the spitting image of David Strine.

— justin chang, latimes.com, "Claire Foy plays a woman in peril in Steven Soderbergh's smart, unnerving psychothriller 'Unsane'," 22 Mar. 2018

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