to be a carbon copy
- Fuente de la expresión
- The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
- Estructura completa
- to be a carbon copy [of someone]
- Variantes
- to be cut from the same cloth, to be a chip off the old block
- Contexto
- His father sat proudly in the audience that day. Bryan was showing me that he wanted better things in life than what I got,' says Don Smals. I thought, Here's a young man who'll finally get the job done.'' # VERY BRIGHT AND VERY HANDY, ALMOST ACARBON copy of his father' -- that's how a neighbor once described Billy Jasinski. Bill ran track, dated girls and did well in high school. And like his father, he dreamed of attending West Point.
- Tipo de fuente
- magazine
- Autor
- M. Vollers-Campbell
- Título de la fuente
- Soldiers of misfortune
- Año
- 1990
- Web
- Corpus of Contemporary American English
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Estándar
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente