plural spitting images
Definition of spitting image
: someone or something that looks very much like someone or something else
Father then and son later are spitting images of each other.— Norris McDonald
— usually singular Naimah was brown-skinned, slender, and neighbors said she was the spitting image of her mother.— Debbie Chocolate… a lovely … Oscar de la Renta dress, which was the spitting image of a similar one the late royal had worn previously.— Megan C. Hill
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The first known use of spitting image was in 1881
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