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tweedledum and tweedledee

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(twēd′'l dum′ ən twēd′'l dē′)

  1. two persons or things so much alike as to be almost indistinguishable
  2. two almost identical brothers in Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll

Origin: < tweedle + dum & dee, echoic of musical notes: first used of two 18th-c. rival composers

See tweedledum and tweedledee in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Two people or two groups resembling each other so closely that they are practically indistinguishable.

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Origin: After Tweedledum and Tweedledee, names of two proverbial rival fiddlers, of imitative origin

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