cut from the same cloth

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Dictionary meaning

of the same fundamental type, character, or background as another person, sharing the same essential qualities, values, and disposition in a way that makes the similarity immediately apparent; the tailoring metaphor refers to garments cut from the same piece of fabric, which will inevitably share the same colour, texture, and pattern regardless of their individual shapes; the phrase can be used admiringly, to note that two people share the same virtues, or critically, to suggest that two individuals share the same flaws or belong to the same category of person deserving of suspicion or contempt