birds of a feather
Noun
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Noun
- (idiomatic) People having similar characters, backgrounds, interests, or beliefs.
- c1710, Jonathan Swift, "A Conference," lines 11-12,
- And since we're so near, like birds of a feather,
- Let's e'en, as they say, set our horses together.
- 1951, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,859236,00.html As Bad or Worse?]," Time, 21 May,
- Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican.... Blanshard has satisfied himself that Stalin and the Pope are pretty much birds of a feather.
- c1710, Jonathan Swift, "A Conference," lines 11-12,
- birds of a feather flock together
- birds-of-a-feather session
- French: bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet, kif-kif
- German: Leute vom gleichen Schlag, Gleichgesinnte, aus demselben Holz geschnitzt
- Russian: одного поля ягоды
- Spanish: Dios los cría y ellos se juntan
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