Tweedledum and Tweedledee


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Tweedledum and Tweedledee/twiːdlˈdʌməntwiːdlˈdiː/
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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