Meaning of birds of a feather | Babel Free

Definitions

1. People having similar characters, backgrounds, interests, or beliefs.
   idiomatic, plural, plural-only
2. Ellipsis of birds of a feather flock together.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, idiomatic, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“c1710, Jonathan Swift, "A Conference," lines 11-12, And since we're so near, like birds of a feather, Let's e'en, as they say, set our horses together.”

“Birds of a feather do fall out sometimes.”

“Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican.... Blanshard has satisfied himself that Stalin and the Pope are pretty much birds of a feather.”

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