Meaning of chip off the old block | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who takes after one of their parents; (generally) a person similar to another.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“He's a chip off the old block—quick to anger just like his father.”

“[A] new Parliment is called at York, where the elder Spencer is advanced to the Earldom of Winchester; and Harkely, another Chip of the same Block, is made Earl of Carlisle.”

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