tweedledee

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You politicians despise the little distinctions "twixt tweedledum and tweedledee," I fancy. '

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  • I'm not a fan of the Electoral College, either .. and I think that the entire system of primaries and our national system of voting needs to be revamped. well, we don't have a real choice, do we? tweedledee or tweedledum ... ubercapitalist or capitalist-lite? —  ImpeachBush
  • Yes, folks, W.A.P. and its predecessor are two peas in a pod, birds of a feather, tweedledee and tweedledum … pick your euphemism, and then pick your nose. —  Rock Sellout
  • You politicians despise the little distinctions "twixt tweedledum and tweedledee," I fancy Of the poetic sort, Dacier's uncle certainly did. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • It was all very funny he knew, and but the difference, as he often said to himself, of tweedledum and tweedledee--an emancipation so purely comparative that it was like the advance of the door-mat on the scraper; yet the present crisis was happily to profit by it and the pilgrim from Milrose to know himself more than ever in the right Strether felt that when he heard of the approach of the Pococks the impulse of pity quite sprang up in him beside the impulse of triumph. —  The Ambassadors
  • I would have thought that was clear enough, tweedledee. —  Slugger O'Toole
 

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