cut from the same cloth

idiom

: very similar to each other
Our mothers were cut from the same cloth.
The country's new president is cut from the same cloth as his predecessor.

Examples of cut from the same cloth in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Tying It All Together Ingram, Young, Garland, and LaVine are all cut from the same cloth as Beal. Mat Issa, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 And we were just cut from the same cloth, for lack of a better phrase. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024 Other initiatives cut from the same cloth—such as the Dominican Republic‒Central America‒U.S. Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA—have ended up mostly benefitting multinational corporations and the region’s ruling families. Manuel Orozco, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022 But Healy’s not the only one who gets a shout out on track 2, a melodramatic ode to a guy who, for better or worse, is cut from the same cloth as her. Shannon Carlin, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cut from the same cloth 

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“Cut from the same cloth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cut%20from%20the%20same%20cloth. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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