spitting image
Perfect family resemblance
A spitting image of someone is a person who looks remarkably like them, typically a close relative.
The phrase almost always appears with a possessive: She's the spitting image of her mother.
The expression likely derives from the idea that one person could have been spit from the mouth of another, so exact is the resemblance.
Variants include spit and image and the older splitting image.
One who closely resembles another
- dead ringerExact duplicate in appearance
- doubleTwice the amount
- twinOne of matched pair
- doppelgangerSupernatural duplicate of oneself
likeness · match · counterpart · clone · duplicate · carbon copy · replica · facsimile
Genetic trait transmission
- genesUnits of heredity
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- offspringBiological descendants produced
progeny · bloodline · lineage · ancestry · resemblance · features · traits · father
Reflective viewing surface
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- mirroredReflected or duplicated inversely
reversed · glass · accurate · faithful · exact · precise · perfect · uncanny
Performer replacing the star
- stand-inTemporary human placeholder
- stunt doublePerformer doing hazardous scenes
- understudyBackup actor, ready nightly
- substituteReplacement for another
impersonator · mimic · imitator · doppelganger · decoy · proxy · avatar · alter ego
lookalike
One who closely resembles another
- dead ringerExact duplicate in appearance
- doubleTwice the amount
- twinOne of matched pair
doppelganger · likeness · match · counterpart · clone · duplicate · carbon copy · replica · facsimile · chip off the old block
heredity
Genetic trait transmission
- genesUnits of heredity
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
offspring · progeny · bloodline · lineage · ancestry · resemblance · features · traits · father · mother
mirror
Reflective viewing surface
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
mirrored · reversed · glass · accurate · faithful · exact · precise · perfect · uncanny · striking
body double
Performer replacing the star
- stand-inTemporary human placeholder
- stunt doublePerformer doing hazardous scenes
- understudyBackup actor, ready nightly
substitute · impersonator · mimic · imitator · doppelganger · decoy · proxy · avatar · alter ego · persona
- doublesdouble, doubles, twin, twins, duplicate
- Family Resemblanceidentical twins, look-alike, family resemblance, takes after, carbon copy
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
- resemblanceresemble, similar, alike, lookalike, likeness
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- body traitsheight, weight, body shape, build, stature
spitting imagepolar opposite
Complete contrary in nature
complete opposite · worlds apart · night and day · antithesis · unrecognizable
spitting imagestark contrast
Extreme obvious difference
inverse · foil · counterpart
spitting imageone of a kind
Utterly without equal
unique · original · singular · distinctive · inimitable
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