cut from the same cloth

Related to cut from the same cloth: pick up the slack, same old same old, worse for wear, up to par, tried and tested

cut from the same cloth

Very similar in characteristics or behaviors. I hate the snow, but my kids just love it—they are definitely cut from the same cloth. Julia and her mother are cut from the same cloth, as they are both so kind and sweet.
See also: cloth, cut, same
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cut from the same cloth

 and made from the same mold
Fig. sharing a lot of similarities; seeming to have been created, reared, or fashioned in the same way. She and her brother are cut from the same cloth. They both tell lies all the time. Father and son are made from the same mold and even sound alike on the telephone.
See also: cloth, cut, same
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

be cut from the same cloth

mainly BRITISH
If two or more people are cut from the same cloth, they are very similar in their character, attitudes, or behaviour. It's often said that London critics are all cut from the same cloth: that they are white, male, middle-aged and middle-class. Note: You can say that people are cut from a different cloth, meaning they are very different. His brother was cut from an altogether different cloth.
See also: cloth, cut, same
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

cut from the same cloth

of the same nature.
1999 Washington Post The last thing a franchise needs is for the two most important men at the top to be cut from the same cloth.
See also: cloth, cut, same
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

be ˌcut from the same ˈcloth

be very similar in character, quality, experience, etc: Don’t assume all the women in our family are cut from the same cloth.
See also: cloth, cut, same
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

cut from the same cloth

Similar or the same.
See also: cloth, cut, same
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • be cut from the same cloth
  • cast in the same mold
  • made from the same mold
  • be cast in the same mould
  • take the cloth
  • cut (one's) coat to suit (one's) cloth
  • in cloth
  • on tenterhooks, to be
  • man of the cloth
  • be putty in (one's) hands
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And maybe that's not entirely fair - Smith being the high priestess of this sort of thing, after all - but they're definitely cut from the same cloth. Still, Mase's recent album, "Speak," and her previous one, "A Brief Night Out," very much stand on their own.
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Albion chairman Jeremy Peace drives a hard bargain, but he will be well aware that Pannu is cut from the same cloth. Pannu reacted with fury when McLeish resigned and demanded pounds 5.4m in compensation, based mainly on the remaining years of his contract.
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In this week's nailbiter cut from the same cloth, notorious terrorist Hasani kidnaps a rogue MI6 agent and demands the release of his cousin from prison - but chaos ensues when Stonebridge and Scott try to complete the exchange.
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Firefox Comes To Android
Speaking by phone from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (where he was premiering his made-for-TV version of A Raisin in the Sun, starring Phylicia Rashad, Sean Combs and Audra McDonald), Leon says the choices are meant to make all 10 plays look "as if they're cut from the same cloth. I'm interested in each play talking to other plays." Leon is himself directing The Piano Lesson, Gem of the Ocean and Fences, and he's assembled seven other directors--"seven guitars," he quips, "who have had personal connections to August." They join a core company of 25 actors, all longtime Wilson veterans, each of whom will portray at least two parts.
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