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like mother, like daughter

idiom

A daughter takes after her mother.


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Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    and his mother

    Serves as an intensifier for an inclusive noun or phrase such as everyone, anyone, each someone or all someones.

  2. 02

    and the like

    And other similar items; et cetera.

  3. 03

    be like

    To say.

  4. 04

    be mother

    To pour out tea for others.

  5. 05

    Bricks and Mortar

    [Cockney slang]daughter

  6. 06

    built like a brick outhouse

    Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.

  7. 07

    built like a brick shipyard

    Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.

  8. 08

    built like a brick shithouse

    Of a man, having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.

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