Tweedledum And Tweedledee Definition

twēdl-dŭm ən twēdl-dē
noun
Two persons or things so much alike as to be almost indistinguishable.
Webster's New World
Two droll, almost identical brothers in Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll.
Webster's New World
(pejorative, idiomatic) A pair of people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly.
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Synonyms:
  • Tweedledee and Tweedledum

Origin of Tweedledum And Tweedledee

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

    From Wiktionary

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

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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