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be the spitting image of sb

(also be the spit (and image) of sb)

Definition

to look extremely similar to someone: Josie is the spitting image of her granny at the same age. The old man was the (dead) spit of Winston Churchill.Describing people with the same qualitiesSimilar and the same
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