like mother, like daughter
- like mother, like daughter
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.
a 1325 Cursor Mundi (EETS) 1. 18857 O suilk [such] a moder, wel slik [such] a child.
1474 CAXTON Game of Chess II. ii. For suche moder suche doughter comunely.
1644 R. WILLIAMS Bloody Tenent of Persecution xcix. Is not this as the Prophet speaks, Like mother, like daughter?
1861 C. READE Cloister & Hearth II. xvii. ‘Mother, you were so hot against her.’.. ‘Ay... Like mother like daughter: cowardice it is our bane.’
1992 A. LAMBERT Rather English Marriage (1993) xi. 188 ‘Darling, you are hopeless! Why are you always so broke?’ (Like mother, like daughter, she thought to herself.)
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like father, like son — The variant form like father, like daughter also occurs. like mother, like daughter evolved separately, although both it and this proverb were fixed in this form in the seventeenth century. Cf. L. qualis pater talis filius, as is the father, so… … Proverbs new dictionary
daughter — see like father, like son like mother, like daughter my son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life … Proverbs new dictionary
mother — see like mother, like daughter the mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge’s wing diligence is the mother of good luck necessity is the mother of invention praise the child, and you make love to the mother … Proverbs new dictionary
like — 1. adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) (more like, most like) 1 a having some or all of the qualities of another or each other or an original; alike (in like manner; as… … Useful english dictionary
like — noun see like will to like like breeds like adjective see like father, like son like master, like man like mother, like daughter like people, like priest verb see … Proverbs new dictionary
daughter — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. female child, girl, offspring, descendant, stepdaughter, heiress, female Dependent, infant, her mother s daughter*, apple of her father s eye*; see also child , girl 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. girl, offspring,… … English dictionary for students
