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tweedledum and tweedledee

(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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