Similarities and differences: MAN ,WOMAN,DO YOU WANT TO BE BOTH ? (795 hits)
sim·i·lar·i·ties 1. The quality or condition of being similar; resemblance. See Synonyms at likeness. 2. A corresponding aspect or feature; equivalence: a similarity of writing styles.
chip off the old block A son who resembles his father in appearance or behavior. take a page out of [someone’s] book To follow another’s example, to copy or imitate someone else; also to take a leaf out of [someone’s] book. The allusion is to literary plagiarism, but the expression is now employed in a positive sense only.
It is a great pity that some of our instructors in more important matters … will not take a leaf out of the same book. (Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, 1861)
