Tweedledum and Tweedledee

短语

半斤八两

发音

/ˌtwiːdəlˈdʌm ən ˌtwiːdəlˈdiː/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Two persons or organizations deemed indistinguishable in some way.

    贬义

    The radicals said that Nixon and Humphrey were Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

  2. 2.

    A pair of people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly.

    半斤八两

    贬义

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

pair brace

词源

From Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a pair of identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom.

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