These expressions usually imply that what distinguishes a given group of individuals is their shared guilt or their similar negative characteristics. A variant of this expression is painted with the same brush. Some say the mark was for identification only others claim it was to protect the sheep against ticks, or to treat sores. This expression derives from the practice of marking all sheep of the same flock with a common mark made by a brush dipped in tar.
Tarred with the same brush All having the same shortcomings each as guilty as the next. (Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, 1861) It is a great pity that some of our instructors in more important matters … will not take a leaf out of the same book. The figurative use of bandwagon dates from the early 1900s: Theory has it that as candidate-carrying wagons moved through a district, local politicos would literally jump aboard those of favorite candidates, thus publicly endorsing them. In the era of political barnstorming, bandwagons carried the parade musicians. Get on the bandwagon To support a particular candidate or cause, usually when success seems assured and no great risk is entailed often climb aboard the bandwagon. This term is rooted in card games such as bridge or setback where rules dictate that, if possible, a participant must follow suit, that is, play a card of the same suit as that which was led. A similar expression dealing figuratively with the feet of a revered person is big or large shoes to fill, implying that substantial effort will be required to meet the standards established by a predecessor.įollow suit To imitate or emulate to act in the same manner as one’s predecessor. ( Complaint of Scotland, 1549)Ī variation is walk in the footsteps. You are obliged to follow the footsteps of your predecessors in virtue. They’re like as a row of pins -Rudyard Kipling.Resembled each other like waves -Gustave Flaubert.Looked as much alike as blackbirds on a fence -John Yount.Looked as alike … as hair pins -Loren D.identical as tracings -Margaret Millar.The simile as used by Ford in The Sportswriter describes modern parents whose lives are so lacking in mystery and difference that they are undifferentiated from their children. As undifferentiable … as ballots in a ballot box -Richard Ford.As like as rain to water -William Shakespeare.As like as like can be -William Wordsworth.As like a hand to another hand -Robert Browning.The form shown here has supplanted older and now little used versions such as, “Alike as two peas to one another” and, “As like each other as two peas.” As alike as two peas in a pod -Jack LondonĮven in an age where more peas make their way to the dinner table from frozen food packages than pods, this now commonplace expression shows no sign of diminishing use.This simile has become so common that no “As alike” introduction is needed, as illustrated by, “Just like two drops of water,” used by Isaac Bashevis Singer in The Family Moskat to describe the resemblance between a mother and son. As alike as two drops of water -James Miller.As alike as my finger is to my finger -William Shakespeare.As alike … as grapes in a cluster -Edna Ferber.The other famous author most frequently credited for the “Alike as eggs” simile is Miguel de Cervantes with “As alike … as one egg is like another” from Don Quixote. Similes about things which tend to be uniform have and continue to inspire many “As alike as” comparisons. (We’re almost) as alike as eggs -William Shakespeare.
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