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| Like Father, Like Son |
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Meaning:
Like Father, Like Son means that someone resembles
their parents in some way, either in appearance or because of their behavior.
Origin:
It is common for similarities to exist between children and their
parents. not just in terms of how they look, but also in the way they behave. One
reason this is because children inherit genes and traits from their parents,
these create similar looks between parent and child. However, there’s another
factor at play. As a child grows up, they are influenced by what they see their
parents do and say. So, a parent’s words and actions can affect them too. The
end result is that once a child reaches adulthood, the way they look and act
may be similar to their parents, “like father, like son!”
There has been a long history of comparing children to their
parents throughout history.
This ancient proverb has been in many languages, in slightly variations since the 1300s, sometimes appearing with a counterpart as in, like mother, like daughter. Some anonymous Latin quotes are:
Qualis pater, talis filius (“as the father, so the son”)
and patris est filius (“he is his father’s son”),
The first written phrase of “like Fathers and sons” where
they express there is a resemblance to each other, is from Bibliotheca
Scholastica Instructissima, a book of proverbs collected by Thomas Draxe in
1616 it read.
“Like father, like son; like mother, like daughter"
Example:
Today we still use this phrase to express a son
looks like or acts like their father. This can be used in a positive way as a
complement or in a negative way as an insult. An example sentence is:
Kevin decided to run for mayor-like father, like son.
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