Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

American  

noun

1. (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ) a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Example Sentences

Rubin once seemed ripped from the pages of Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities”—and was himself a character in Michael Lewis’s “Liar’s Poker”—but in the government’s telling appears to be more like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Lachnospiraceae may be the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the gut," Kim said.

From Science Daily

A showier witness might have borrowed from popular culture to compare him to a tormented Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or perhaps to Hannibal Lecter, stiff-backed in his prison cell in The Silence of the Lambs.

From BBC

“Which team is going to show up, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?”

From Seattle Times

Scientists are seeing growing evidence that formaldehyde plays an important role in our biology despite its potential toxicity, giving it a dual nature much like the literary characters of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

From Science Daily