Twee·dle·dum and Twee·dle·dee
noun/ˌtwiːdlˌdʌm ən twiːdlˈdiː/
/ˌtwiːdlˌdʌm ən twiːdlˈdiː/
[plural]- two people or things that are not different from each other
无差别的两个人（或事物）；半斤八两 More Like This Expressions from literary sourcesExpressions from literary sources- Alice in Wonderland
- Casanova
- Cassandra
- Don Juan
- Dorian Gray
- Falstaffian
- Frankenstein
- Jekyll and Hyde
- Lilliputian
- Lothario
- Orwellian
- Pandora’s box
- Peter Pan
- Pied Piper
- Pollyanna
- Rip Van Winkle
- Ruritanian
- Scrooge
- Shangri-La
- Sherlock
- Stepford Wife
- Svengali
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- Utopia
- Walter Mitty
Word OriginOriginally 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.