Definition
Of two or more persons or things, very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.
In Context
- "[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."
- ""Now ain't they jist the finest gentlemen?" said Katy. "Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father.""
- "Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs."
- "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."
See Also
- like two peas in a pod
- of a kind
- cut one's coat according to one's cloth