sb's answer to sb/sth
If something or someone is the answer to another thing or person, it is or they are considered to be similar or as good:
Channel 4 is independent television's answer to BBC2.
She's Lithuania's answer to Madonna.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargain sth away
- change over
- change places idiom
- fill
- name
- part exchange
- pinch-hit
- pre-empt
- proxy
- rep
- represent
- reserve
- sit
- succeed
- succession
- supersede
- supplant
- swap
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