The female equivalent of like father, like son. ezekiel xvi. 44 (AV) Every one‥ shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
O suilk [such] a moder, wel slik [such] a child.
[a 1325 Cursor Mundi (EETS) l. 18857]
For suche moder suche doughter comunely.
[1474 Caxton Game of Chess ii. ii.]
Is not this as the Prophet speaks, Like mother, like daughter?
[1644 R. Williams Bloody Tenent of Persecution xcix.]
‘Mother, you were so hot against her.’‥‘Ay. ‥Like mother like daughter: cowardice it is our bane.’
[1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. xvii.]
‘Darling, you are hopeless! Why are you always so broke?’ (Like mother, like daughter, she thought to herself.)
[1992 A. Lambert Rather English Marriage (1993) xi. 188]
Related to: children and parents; similarity and dissimilarity
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