of the same stripe
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
1
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: cut from the same cloth; of a kind, of a piece, of a blood, of a feather; all one, all the same; monolithic"
- "[T]he Tribune . . . may not mislead Union electors by imputing Republicanism to Mr. HECKER. The Tribune takes Mr. O'GORMAN with his secession record—Mr. HECKER is of the same stripe."
- ""Well, it is the same thing over again," he thought bitterly, "like mother, like daughter—they are both of the same stripe.""
- "I had no gods to bother me, and my friends were of the same stripe."
- "Once having overthrown Saddam, we would have faced two choices: accepting another dictator of the same stripe . . . or getting bogged down trying to administer the place ourselves."
- "It is good old unregulated American greed of the same stripe that drove this country into its current economic meltdown."