a kindred soul

a kindred soul

A person who shares several fundamental beliefs, ideas, convictions, sentiments, attitudes, or interests with oneself. It didn't take long to figure out that John is a kindred soul, and we've been the closest of friends ever since we met.
See also: kindred, soul
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a kindred spirit
  • for (one's) (own) sake
  • for sake
  • wash (one's) hands of (someone or something)
  • wash hands of
  • wash one's hands of
  • wash your hands of
  • wash your hands of somebody/something
  • wash your hands of something/someone
  • keep sight of somebody/something
References in periodicals archive
Brock, who completed a Hall of Fame career in 1979--the same year that Henderson debuted--was the most prolific basestealer the game had ever seen, and he saw in Henderson a kindred soul.
Rickey Henderson looks back on Hall of Fame career: all-time stolen-base king has great memories of a 25-year career that featured 3,000 hits, the lifetime record for runs scored, an MVP award and two World Series titles
Fans of Douglas Adams will recognize a kindred soul in Holt, whose funny protagonists finds themselves in all manner of strange circumstances.
Expecting Someone Taller & Ye Gods!
IT'S great to get a letter from a kindred soul. You have started your psychic career in the same way as I did - by using your natural aptitude for palmistry.
Psychic Sandra: I think I could be psychic like you
While Acres performed blessings of expectedly ironic things (master tapes, a poodle, Christian kitsch), another, clearly sincere, Christian artist came up, tears streaming down his cheeks, overjoyed to find a kindred soul. Here was an intersection one doesn't expect in postmodern art, a collision of faith and artifice.
Jim Shaw's top ten
Olive Chancellor, representing a new generation of "do - gooders, " who thinks she has found a kindred soul in a beautiful and impressionable girl, Verena Tarrant.
Bostonians, The