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Tweedledum and Tweedledee

noun
1.
Any two people who are hard to tell apart.  Synonym: Tweedledee and Tweedledum.






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"Tweedledum and Tweedledee" Quotes from Famous Books



... cabined and confined' his instinct toward a spirit so strapped down as Waymarsh's was to walk round it on tiptoe for fear of waking it up to a sense of losses by this time irretrievable. It was all very funny he knew, and but the difference, as he often said to himself, of tweedledum and tweedledee—an emancipation so purely comparative that it was like the advance of the door-mat on the scraper; yet the present crisis was happily to profit by it and the pilgrim from Milrose to know himself more ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James

... she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know. So you'll go VERY quickly through the Third Square—by railway, I should think—and you'll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, THAT square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee—the Fifth is mostly water—the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty—But you ...
— Through the Looking-Glass • Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll



Words linked to "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" :   brace, pair, Tweedledee and Tweedledum



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