Sorry but I have to have a rant. Why do people say "he's the spitting image of his brother " (example)....It's splitting image...Like splitting a piece of wood in two and getting a mirror image...Spitting image was the puppet piss take programme years ago....Why would someone be a spitting image of someone else.....You just wouldn't...euk!!!
I feel better now.
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Maybe because they look like a rubber faced puppet from the 80's??
All together now....."Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deck chair up your nose"
Hey horn-ed one - I think it is 'spitting image', maybe taken from '(s)he's the dead spit of his/her mother'.
People often say 'chomping at the bit', when the original phrase is 'champing at the bit'.
both have been about for a long time.
perhaps it is a regional variation. it was always the spitting image to me, and someone could be the dead spit of someone else.
quite a few x-posts as we all rushed in skotty wins the most sensitive response by suggesting regional variations
splitting image
ps Vicky, innit.
It's Splitting Image...so there!!!
Would you like anythink else...........It's anything......with a G.
To be more pacific.......It's specific.....With a s and e.
Innit.........It's Isn't it........Talk Properly!!!
And......
When you send a text message I expect it in full English i.e See you later...NOT....C U L8 or I Love you NOT ...luv u
I think I need some more Evening Primrose
There's nowt wrong with innit!
similar Vicky...degree in english means I can write whatever pony I like on here!
you get me
It is from spit and image. And I'm even older than Wilkie.
Hmmm...now I can distinctly remember when Spitting Image the programme started, thinking that the programme name was basically a sort of dirty play on splitting image, the phrase I was familiar with. A quick Google suggests that both have been in use for some time, and my guess is that since the programme entered the cultural vernacular, that everyone assumes that spitting image is the only correct answer.
Runninginpleasepass - top Googling.
Schoolboy error no. 36: upmost instead of utmost.