two of a kind

1. Very similar individuals or things, as in Patrice and John are two of a kind—they're true hiking enthusiasts. This idiom uses kind in the sense of “a class with common characteristics,” a usage dating from about a.d. 1000.

Example Sentences

—If we could get face time with Klaus, he’d love you, man, you’re two of a kind.

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Brown — whose other film and TV credits include “Major Payne,” “Family Matters” and “Two of a Kind” — has faced a spate of legal troubles over the last decade.

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“Give me a break,” movie critic Roger Ebert wrote in his “Two of a Kind” review.

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The first, “Two of a Kind,” was a box-office flop released in 1983.

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The inherent warmth of 1970s studio sessions gave way to the cold, synthesized gleam of the 1980s, a sterile sound that suited her well only once: the candied faux-new wave of “Twist of Fate,” taken from “Two of a Kind,” her 1983 reunion with John Travolta.

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Related Words

• affinity 
• analogy 
• closeness 
• coincidence 
• comparison 
• connection 
• correlation 
• harmony 
• kinship 
• parallel 
• relationship 
• resemblance 
• sameness