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chip off the old block
chip off the old block
Fig. a person (usually a male) who behaves in the same way as his father or resembles his father. John looks like his father—a real chip off the old block. Bill Jones, Jr., is a chip off the old block. He's a banker just like his father.
chip off the old block
A person who closely resembles a parent, as in Like her mother, Karen has very little patience-a chip off the old block. This term, with its analogy to a chip of stone or wood that closely resembles the larger block it was cut from, dates from ancient times (Theocritus, Idyls, c. 270 b.c.). In English it was already a proverb by the 17th century, then often put as chip of the old block.
chip off the old block
A child whose appearance or character closely resembles that of one or the other parent.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Aristotle | | AR-ə-stah-təl (English), ER-ə-stah-təl (English) | Ancient Greek (Anglicized) |
| ĄŽUolas | | - | Lithuanian |
| Hester | | HES-tər (English) | English, Biblical Latin |
| Oenone | | - | Greek Mythology (Latinized) |
| Mohamed | | - | Arabic (Egyptian) |
| Marzell | | - | German |