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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 |
Rahul | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telug |
Colum | | - | Irish |
Japik | | - | Frisian (Rare) |
OŽBej | | - | Slovene |
Erwan | | - | Breton |
Apollinaire | | - | French (Rare) |