chip off the old block

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Fig. a person (usually a male) who behaves in the same way as his father or resembles his father. John looks like his father—a real chip off the old block. Bill Jones, Jr., is a chip off the old block. He's a banker just like his father.

See also: block, chip, old

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Truly, his one son was a chip off the old block, and Peter Winn had no meek notions concerning the intrinsic value of said old block. The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context More results

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