TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE


Meaning of TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE in English

■ noun a pair of people or things that are virtually indistinguishable.

Origin

orig. names applied to the composers Bononcini and Handel, in a 1725 satire by John Byrom; later used for two identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1871).

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