cut from the same cloth

English

Alternative forms

• cut of the same cloth
• cut out of the same cloth

Pronunciation

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Adjective

cut from the same cloth

1. (idiomatic, of two or more persons or things) Very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.
   • 1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Subterranean Brotherhood:

     [T]hese men are no more lost souls than we are—are, in fact, woven out of the same yarn and cut from the same cloth.

   • 1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 15, in Her Father's Daughter:

     "Now ain't they jist the finest gentlemen?" said Katy. "Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father."

   • 1997 October 3, Stephen Holden, “Film Review: Casanova Complex”, in New York Times, retrieved 4 July 2011:

     Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs.

   • 2009 January 6, Jeff Israely, “Rome Eyes Russian Orthodox Church Vote”, in Time:

     Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth — fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects.

Synonyms

• like two peas in a pod, of a kind

Translations

very similar

• German: aus dem gleichen Holz geschnitzt
• Hungarian: ugyanolyan (hu), egy fából faragták, hasonszőrűek
• Polish: ulepiony z tej samej gliny
• Romanian: de aceeași teapă, de o teapă
• Russian: одного́ по́ля я́годы (ru) impf (odnovó pólja jágody) (berries from the same field)

See also

• cut one's coat according to one's cloth

References

• “cut from the same cloth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.