Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cut from the same cloth

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables: cut from the same -cloth
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

2

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of two or more persons or things, very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.

Example Sentences

"[T]hese men are no more lost souls than we are—are, in fact, woven out of the same yarn and cut from the same cloth."
""Now ain't they jist the finest gentlemen?" said Katy. "Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father.""
"Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs."
"Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth — fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects."

Inflected Forms

cut of the same cloth (alternative) cut out of the same cloth (alternative)

Phrases

like two peas in a pod of a kind cut one's coat according to one's cloth

Frequently Paired Words

like two peas in a pod of a kind cut one's coat according to one's cloth

Questions

What does cut from the same cloth mean?: Of two or more persons or things, very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.

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