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Subject: Re: I'm lost
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:26:42 +0800
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"tweedledum and tweedledee"
n.
Two people or two groups resembling each other so closely that they are
practically indistinguishable.
After Tweedledum and Tweedledee, names of two proverbial rival fiddlers, of
imitative origin
Yours sincerely,
Johnson
"Javier Caamano" <javiercaamano@terra.es> ????
news:17c33a4b.0401101356.4712f13a@posting.google.com...
> I'd like to know the meaning of the sentence:"my age is tweedle and
> twee". It's taken from a song called "I was born" by Billy Bragg.
> Thanks in advance.
> Javier
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