| 词汇 | spit and image |
| 释义 | spit and image noun an exact likeness of someone or something. The surviving form of 'spit and fetch' (image, picture), in which 'spit' is surely the substance of a body, or perhaps its corrupted 'spirit' and the noun with which it is combined represents an outer-appearance, ('fetch' is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as 'the apparition, double or wraith of a living person'); 'spit and' has varied in dialect use to spitten leading, ultimately, to the conventional synonym: 'spitting image' UK, 1895the spit and image of (one)A person who looks exactly like or bears a very strong resemblance to one. Wow, you are just the spit and image of your mother! I was about to call you by her name. That guy over there looks like the spit and image of someone I went to high school with. *spit and image of someoneand *the spitting image of someonethe very likeness of someone; a very close resemblence to someone. (*The second version is a frequent error. *Typically: be ~; look like ~.) John is the spit and image of his father. At first, I thought you were saying "spitting image." |
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