Definition of spitting image

spitting imagenoun

hình ảnh nhổ nước bọt

/ˌspɪtɪŋ ˈɪmɪdʒ//ˌspɪtɪŋ ˈɪmɪdʒ/

Word Originlate 19th cent.: originally as the spit of or the spit and image of; perhaps from the idea of a person apparently being formed from the spit of another, so great is the similarity between them.

namespace

Related words and phrases

All matches

Idioms

be the spitting image of somebody
to look exactly like somebody else
  • She's the spitting image of her mother.