English · Idiom Attested

cut from the same cloth

In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

Of the same nature.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Có cùng bản chất

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Where it’s used: Used Widespread English

Examples

These individuals read newspapers fabricated in the offices of the Communist ~ Party; view only two television channels, both cut from the same cloth; and listen to radios that play the same worn - out speeches.

And yet attempts to view canine smarts as cut from the same cloth as human intelligence gloss over a lot of the details about how dogs and humans operate.

British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Figurative class: Metaphor (PIE-English corpus, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-31).

Common questions

What does “cut from the same cloth” mean?

Of the same nature.

Is “cut from the same cloth” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.

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