Catholic twins
Related to Catholic twins: Irish twins
Catholic twins
Siblings who are less than a year apart in age. A satirical phrase playing on the stereotype that Catholics have many children very close together in age. My younger sister and I ended up in the same year in school, so everyone always called us the Catholic twins.
See also: catholic
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- come of age
- a dog's age
- dog's age
- the big (number)-o
- the big something-o
- be one age with (someone)
- one age with (someone)
- of age
- age of consent
- consent