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单词 like father like son
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like father like son (also daughter)
(b) esp. in like father like son (also daughter) and variants : a child's character or behaviour usually resembles that of his or her father. [Compare post-classical Latin qualis pater talis filius (6th cent.), Middle French, French tel père tel fils (1550 or earlier), tel père tel enfant (1540 or earlier).]
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c1475 Proverbs (Rawl. D.328) in Mod. Philol. (1940) 38 124 (MED) Sepe probat natus de qua sit stirpe creatus: Sygge fader, sygge sonne.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xciv. §10. 342 Ill sunnys folous ill fadirs.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxxviii An olde prouerbe hath longe agone be sayde That oft the sone in maners lyke wyll be Unto the Father.]
1596 E. Topsell Reward of Relig. iii. 66 Truely now is like seruant, like maister; like maide like mistresse, like father like sonne, like mother like daughter, such is the seede such is the haruest.
1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. ix. 30 Like Father, like Son.
1800 M. Edgeworth Simple Susan i, in Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) II. 64 ‘Barbara! aye! like father, like daughter,’ cried Farmer Price.
1841 Satirist 11 Apr. 118/2 It is not likely that he would see what his father made it his business..to be blind to. Like father like son.
1915 J. London Star Rover xii. 113Like fathers like sons,’ he said. ‘The young generation is as bad as the older.’
1952 Princeton Alumni Weekly 22 Feb. 14/2 Like father, like daughter, she is tops in her field.
1982 A. Desai Village by Sea iii. 56 Like father, like daughter. A family of liars, no-goods.
2014 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Jan. (Sport section) 10 Javier Ballesteros..holed out from 10ft for birdie: like father, like son.
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