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spitting image

n.

A perfect likeness or counterpart.

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[Alteration of spit and image, from spit, an exact likeness, as in the very spit of; see spit¹.]

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spitting image

Noun

Informal a person who looks very like someone else [from spit likeness]

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Noun

1.

spitting image - a perfect likeness or counterpart alikeness, likeness, similitude - similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness"

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spitting image

noun double, lookalike, (dead) ringer (slang) picture, spit (informal), chiefly Brit. clone, replica, likeness, living image, spit and image (informal)