What does like father, like son mean?

like father, like son

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English

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chip off the old block father to son like mother, like daughter the apple does not fall far from the tree

chip off the old block father to son like mother, like daughter the apple does not fall far from the tree

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