Like mother, like daughter.

Like mother, like daughter.
Like mother, like daughter.
Prov. Daughters resemble their mothers.; Daughters tend to do what their mothers did before them. •

My mother loved sweets, and every time my father saw me with a cookie in my hand, he would sigh, “Like mother, like daughter.”

Jill: Gina's beautiful. Jane: Like mother, like daughter; her mother's gorgeous, too.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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