Spitting Image
Satirical puppet program
A spitting image is an exact likeness or double of someone, usually referring to family resemblance: She's the spitting image of her mother.
The phrase emphasizes how strikingly similar two people look.
The origin is debated—possibly from "spit and image" suggesting someone formed from another's spit, or simply intensive use of "spit" meaning perfect likeness.
One who closely resembles another
- doubleTwice the amount
- twinOne of matched pair
- cloneGenetically identical organism
- doppelgangerSupernatural duplicate of oneself
carbon copy · dead ringer · replica · duplicate · likeness · counterpart · copy · facsimile
Units of heredity
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- fatherMale parent
- motherFemale parent
- resemblanceLikeness between things
bloodline · family · lineage · trait · offspring · descendant · ancestral · DNA
lookalike
One who closely resembles another
doppelganger · carbon copy · dead ringer · replica · duplicate · likeness · counterpart · copy · facsimile · match
genes
Units of heredity
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- fatherMale parent
- motherFemale parent
resemblance · bloodline · family · lineage · trait · offspring · descendant · ancestral · DNA · generation
caricature
Exaggerated comic depiction
mockery · impersonation · exaggeration · sketch · spoof · mimicry · send-up · grotesque · ridicule · latex
- British comedyMonty Python, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, The Office
- British SatirePrivate Eye, Blackadder, Monty Python, John Cleese, Eric Idle
- satirelampoon, parody, parody account, political satire, spoof
Spitting Imagepolar opposite
Complete contrary in nature
complete opposite · antithesis · worlds apart · night and day · chalk and cheese
Spitting Imagecaricature
Exaggerated comic depiction
distortion · grotesque · parody · mockery · travesty
Spitting Imageone of a kind
Utterly without equal
unique · original · singular · inimitable · sui generis
spit, spitting, image, images, imagery, imagine, imaginary, imagination, imaginative