spitting image
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishspitting imageˌspitting ˈimage noun → be the spitting image of somebodyExamples from the Corpusspitting image• On reflection, Marti's the spitting image of a panto baddie.• It was the spitting image of him.• But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man.Spitting ImageSpitting Image a humorous British television programme of the 1980s and early 1990s in which rubber puppets representing well-known people, especially politicians, performed in sketches (=short humorous scenes) about recent events in the news