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Tweedledum and Tweedledee   Listen
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee  phr.  Two things practically alike; a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini."





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"Tweedledum and Tweedledee" Quotes from Famous Books



... a publication which was every week what James Mill[630] would call a dose of capital for my Budget. A few anti-paradoxers brought in common sense: but to the mass of the readers of the journal it all seemed to be the difference between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Some said that the influx of scientific paradoxes killed the journal: but my belief is that they made it last longer than it otherwise would have done. Twenty years ago I recommended the paradoxers to combine and publish their views in a common journal: with ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan


Words linked to "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" :   pair


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