Definition
People having similar characters, backgrounds, interests, or beliefs.
Ellipsis of birds of a feather flock together.
In Context
- "c1710, Jonathan Swift, "A Conference," lines 11-12, And since we're so near, like birds of a feather, Let's e'en, as they say, set our horses together."
- "Birds of a feather do fall out sometimes."
- "Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican.... Blanshard has satisfied himself that Stalin and the Pope are pretty much birds of a feather."
See Also
- birds of a feather flock together
- birds-of-a-feather session