Tweedledum

Examples

• All

• I am Mr Tweedledum and this is Mr Tweddledee.

  Alice in Wonderland (1999)

• Be satisfied with the choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Nader).

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• - Why the hell were Tweedledee and Tweedledum here?

  The Misadventures of Mistress Maneater (2020)

• When it is a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, you have to have some way to make up your mind.

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• Here comes Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

  Hall Pass (2011)

• Tweedledum and Tweedledee... which, if either, is it going to be?

  Star! (1968)

• - What is this? - I'm Tweedledee, he's Tweedledum.

  Alice in Wonderland (2010)

• Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

  The Last King of Scotland (2006)

• We've got Tweedledee, Tweedledum.

  The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan (2012)

• It was hard to tell whether she was Tweedledum or Tweedledee at the costume party.

Synonyms

T

Tweedledee

vsTweedledum

• Literature

4 9.0

A made-up twin character in a Lewis Carroll story who pairs with Tweedledum

is the matching member of that same fictional pair not the other twin

S

similitude

vsTweedledum

• Literature

9.8

A person or thing that looks almost the same as another

refers to a specific fictional character in a paired set rather than general resemblance

Compounds

T

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

9.7

Two people who look and behave almost the same and are hard to tell apart

T

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

9.5

Two people who look very alike and are hard to tell apart

Surface Forms

Etymology