OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 31609

chip off the old block

Meanings (ES + gloss)
de tal palo, tal astilla
Someone who takes after one of their parents; (generally) a person similar to another.
He's a chip off the old block—quick to anger just like his father.
[A] new Parliment is called at York, where the elder Spencer is advanced to the Earldom of Winchester; and Harkely, another Chip of the same Block, is made Earl of Carlisle.
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