spitting image
noun /ˌspɪtɪŋ ˈɪmɪdʒ/
/ˌspɪtɪŋ ˈɪmɪdʒ/
Word Originlate 19th cent.: originally as the spit of or the spit and image of; perhaps from the idea of a person apparently being formed from the spit of another, so great is the similarity between them.
Idioms Idioms
be the spitting image of somebody
- to look exactly like somebody else
- She's the spitting image of her mother.