tweedledum and tweedledee

1. 1.

   any two people who are hard to tell apart

   SynonymsTweedledee and Tweedledum

   Broaderpair

Questions about tweedledum and tweedledee

What does tweedledum and tweedledee mean?

tweedledum and tweedledee means "any two people who are hard to tell apart".

What is another word for tweedledum and tweedledee?

Close synonyms include Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tweedledum and tweedledee a common word?

tweedledum and tweedledee 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.