cut from the same cloth

alternative cut of the same cloth · alternative cut out of the same cloth

1. idiomaticOf two or more persons or things, very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.

   Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs.

   1997 October 3, Stephen Holden, “Film Review: Casanova Complex”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jul 2011

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   [T]hese men are no more lost souls than we are—are, in fact, woven out of the same yarn and cut from the same cloth.

   1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Subterranean Brotherhood

   "Now ain't they jist the finest gentlemen?" said Katy. "Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father."

   1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 15, in Her Father's Daughter

   Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth — fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects.

   2009 January 6, Jeff Israely, “Rome Eyes Russian Orthodox Church Vote”, in Time