spitting image

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   a perfect likeness or counterpart

   Broaderlikeness

Questions about spitting image

What does spitting image mean?

spitting image means "a perfect likeness or counterpart".

Is spitting image a common word?

spitting image is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.