单词 | chip of the old block |
释义 | > as lemmaschip of the old (also same) block P2. chip off the old (also same) block (also originally, now less commonly) chip of the old (also same) block: a person who closely resembles a parent or other forebear, whether physically, or in terms of character or actions; a child considered as typical of his or her parentage or ancestry; (also more generally) a person or thing considered as influenced by or similar to another. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > one who resembles another > one who inherits qualities from another sonc1175 chip off the old (also same) block1621 chip1658 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > matroclinous or patroclinous inheritance chip off the old (also same) block1621 matrocliny1917 1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 106 The valour of his sonne Caesar Borgia, a true chip of the old blocke, whom notwithstanding all his villanies, Machiauell proposeth..as the onely example for a Prince to imitate. 1627 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 283 Am not I a child of the same Adam..a chip of the same block, with him? 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 126 Episcopacy, which they thought but a great chip of the old block Popery. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. xci. 273 A true chip of the old venereal block his father. 1833 ‘A Manufacturer’ Relig. & Politics iii. 37 Compare them with your old mother, and say whether you are not a true chip off the old block. 1888 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 6 Apr. 4/2 He certainly was as good a patriot as old Taney, but Taney and Marshall were not chips of the same political block. 1929 H. E. Bates Seven Tales & Alex. 40 He's my son, and he's a chip off the old block, and I'm proud of him. 1995 I. J. Galantin Submarine Admiral (1997) xiv. 155 ‘Junior’ McCain was a chip of the old block—small, wiry, colorful, profane, and full of nervous energy. 2008 D. Starkey Henry (2009) xxii. 313 Henry, despite his reaction against his father, showed himself very much a chip off the old block. < as lemmas |
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