alter ego

alter ego

1. Another name or identity that one assumes. He's a clean-cut accountant during the week, but on the weekend he indulges in hedonistic pursuits as his alter ego "Jack."
2. A separate or different aspect or element of one's personality, identity, or psyche. For such a quiet woman, she has a rage and temper at times that is like some alter ego.
3. A close, inseparable friend of very similar attitudes and interests. My girlfriend and I are so similar, we are like each other's alter ego.
4. A person who acts as a substitute for or copy of another person; a doppelgänger. Due to his increasingly failing health, the dictator's son has been running the country for the past month, essentially as his alter ego.
See also: alter, ego
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • ego
  • gender bender
  • gender-bender
  • clean-cut
  • lotus eater
  • large it
  • give it large
  • have it large
  • riotous living
  • mislead about
References in periodicals archive
Another explanation may lie within the federal court system, under which alter ego lawsuits generally fall.
The alter ego principle as a form of the "piercing the corporate veil" doctrine, renders a parent liable when it uses its subsidiary as a "sham to perpetrate a fraud." [Slip op.
But Crumb, deflating as ever, stated that he considers those full-size, plastic advertising mascots from the 1950s to be true art, a disavowal bringing to mind his alter ego's answer to the question posed by the exhibition's title: "You tell me, I don't know."
Grayson Perry (left),dressed as alter ego Claire, with his wife Philippa and daughter Flo
is the first work of mainstream history to examine the relationship between Wilson and "Colonel" Edward Mandell House, described by Fleming as "an alter ego whom the president needed and used constantly." House's "ideal government was portrayed in a novel he wrote a few years before he met Woodrow Wilson: Philip Dru: Administrator,'" continues Fleming.
1980)); or (2) a transaction in which T fails to completely liquidate and new T becomes T's alter ego; see Telephone Answering Service Co., Inc., (TASCO), 63 TC 423 (1974), aff'd, 546 F2d 423 (4th Cir.
Q: What's the name of Dennis Busenitz' monster truck alter ego?
Among compounds found were DDT, tributyl tin, and polychlorinated biphenyls--all pollutants that can have a hormonal alter ego.
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The "other" remains an alter ego, who must be considered once we talk about objectivity.
TAGHeuer's Alter Ego is the latest watch to be launched by Watches of Switzerland and the first watch by TAGHeuer to be designed exclusively for women.
Sumner Katz, president of American Marketing Technology Group, wants his Alter Ego to be THE alternative beverage.
Shirer, Murrow's original hire, and ultimately his closest confidant and alter ego; the master writer Eric Sevareid; the flamboyant Charles Collingwood; the intrepid Larry Leseur; and Mary Marvin Breckenridge, the sole woman to penetrate the inner circle of Murrow's macho male fiefdom.
In the November-December 1989 issue of The Tax Executive, a colleague and I published an article that (1) analyzed the historical foundations regarding constitutional limitations on state tax jurisdiction and (2) discussed recent attempts by state taxing authorities to assert jurisdiction over a corporation based on the presence within the state of that corporation's agent, alter ego, or unitary affiliate.
An alter ego begins to haunt William Wilson at a boys' school not unlike one that Poe attended, and pursues Wilson like a conscience through all his adventures as a young man.