chip off the old block
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chip off the old block (plural chips off the old block or chips off old blocks)
- (idiomatic) Someone who takes after one of their parents; (generally) a person similar to another.
- c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […] , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 32:
- [A] new Parliment is called at York, where the elder Spencer is advanced to the Earldom of Winchester; and Harkely, another Chip of the same Block, is made Earl of Carlisle.
- He's a chip off the old block—quick to anger just like his father.
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someone who takes after a parent
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