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单词 as like as two peas
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as like as two peas
P1. as like as two peas (and variants, now esp. (like) two peas in a pod): extremely similar; indistinguishable.
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(arrows) of the same flight1545
as like as milk to milk1638
as like as two peas1746
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. in Euphues (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aiij As like as one pease is to an other.
1681 Heraclitus Ridens 11 Oct. 1/1 Rebellion and Witchcraft are as like as two Pease.]
1746 A. Arbuthnot Life Simon, Lord Lovat 191 My next Brother was a Cadet in a Marching Regiment, and hath since got to be a Lieutenant-Colonel so [sic] the Regiment, thro' the interest of the Cardinal, who is as like as two Peas.
1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxi. 156 As like..as two peas are to one another.
?1840 J. B. Buckstone Jack Sheppard ii. i. 23 The likeness of your face to a miniature I have in my pocket... As like as two peas in a pod.
1864–8 R. Browning James Lee's Wife ix. iii We both should be like as pea and pea.
1958 H. J. Eysenck Sense & Nonsense in Psychol. (rev. ed.) iii. 119 This price..has been the unmitigated boredom produced by having to read through countless reports, all as similar as two peas.
1986 F. Peretti This Present Darkness xvi. 155 All the regents were becoming like peas in a pod, like clones of each other.
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as like as two peas
Frequent in proverbial expressions, as to make two bites of a cherry (bite n. 7, cherry n. 1b); to have two strings to one's bow (bow n.1 4c); of two evils (or ills) choose the less (evil n.1 4, ill n. 5b); between two fires (fire n. 10); two heads are better than one (head n.1 Phrases 5c); as like as two peas (pea n.2 1b); two cents' worth (U.S.): = two pennyworth n. (fig.); cf. two-cent adj. at Compounds 2 below; no two ways about it: see way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 5d etc.extracted from twoadj.n.adv.
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