like father, like son

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 is the son.

c 1340 R. ROLLE Psalter (1884) 342 Ill sunnys folous ill fadirs.

1509 A. BARCLAY Ship of Fools 98 An olde prouerbe hath longe agone be sayde That oft the sone in maners lyke wyll be Vnto the Father.

1616 T. DRAXE Adages 149 Like father like sonne.

1709 O. DYKES English Proverbs 30 Like Father, like Son... How many Sons inherit their Fathers Failings, as well as Estates?

1936 W. HOLTBY South Riding v. i. Perhaps Lydia might do it once too often... Like father, like daughter.

1983 ‘M. INNES’ Appleby & Honeybath xii. And like son, like father, if one may so vary the old expression. Neither of them reading men.


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