take after sb
— phrasal verb with take uk/teɪk/us/teɪk/verb took, taken
B2 to be similar to an older member of your family in appearance or character:
He takes after his mother/his mother's side of the family.
More examples
- Lazy? He takes after his father.
- She takes after me with her love of horses.
- I hope the children don't take after their grandfather.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Describing people with the same qualities
- a chip off the old block idiom
- a meeting of minds idiom
- be cast in the same mould idiom
- be of like mind idiom
- be of the same mind idiom
- birds of a feather flock together idiom
- birds of a feather idiom
- cast
- dead ringer
- doppelgänger
- double
- it takes a thief to catch a thief idiom
- match
- meeting
- mind
- soulmate
- step
- thief
- wavelength
- well matched
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