This expression goes back at least to the early sixteen hundreds. The British writer of plays, George Colman, wrote these lines in seventeen sixty-two. "You'll find him his father's own son, I believe. A chip off the old block, I promise you!"这个说法至少要追溯到17世纪初.英国剧作家乔治`科尔曼(George Colman)在1762年这样写道:"我相信,你会发现他就是他父亲的亲生儿子.我向你保证,他们就像一个模子里刻出来的."
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