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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Phoebe and Melody are cut from the same cloth in a lot of ways.
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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
The leading bands of Detroit counterculture were cut from the same cloth.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024
Medrano and Brightman recently spoke about how horror and musical theater are cut from the same cloth, whether or not hell even exists and other topics on the entertainment-existentialist spectrum.
—Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
These are my people, these cities get me, were cut from the same cloth.
—Holly Alvarado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2023
Central Asia offers several examples of states in which the heirs of dead dictators were cut from the same cloth as the predecessors who tapped them.
—Erica Marat, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2016
The new home and away primary sweaters are cut from the same cloth as other recent black-and-gold jerseys, but with a few twists.
—Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
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
The leading bands of Detroit counterculture were cut from the same cloth.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024
Medrano and Brightman recently spoke about how horror and musical theater are cut from the same cloth, whether or not hell even exists and other topics on the entertainment-existentialist spectrum.
—Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
These are my people, these cities get me, were cut from the same cloth.
—Holly Alvarado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2023
Central Asia offers several examples of states in which the heirs of dead dictators were cut from the same cloth as the predecessors who tapped them.
—Erica Marat, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2016
The new home and away primary sweaters are cut from the same cloth as other recent black-and-gold jerseys, but with a few twists.
—Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
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