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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Tweedle·dum and Tweedle·dee 7 BrE [ˌtwiːdlˈdʌm ən twiːdlˈdiː] NAmE [ˌtwiːdlˈdʌm ən twiːdlˈdiː] noun plural
two people or things that are not different from each other
Word Origin:
[Tweedledum and Tweedledee] originally names applied to the composers Bononcini (1670–1747) and Handel, in a 1725 satire by John Byrom (1692–1763); they were later used for two identical characters in Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking Glass.
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