tweedledum and tweedledee

twee·dle·dum and twee·dle·dee

two persons or things so much alike as to be almost indistinguishable
[T- and T-] two droll, almost identical brothers in Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll

Origin of tweedledum and tweedledee

from tweedle, echoic of reed pipe + dum and dee, echoic of musical notes: first used of two 18th-c. rival composers

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tweedledum and tweedledee

noun

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

Origin of tweedledum and tweedledee

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

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Noun

(pejorative, idiomatic) Two persons or organizations deemed indistinguishable in some way.
The radicals said that Nixon and Humphrey were Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
(pejorative, idiomatic) A pair of people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly.

Origin

From Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a pair of identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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