Spitting
61spitting image — spit|ting im|age [ ,spıtıŋ ımıdʒ ] noun count INFORMAL someone who looks exactly like another person …
62spitting image — Meaning The exact likeness. Origin Originally the spit and image . Spit may be a corruption of spirit . An alternative suggestion is that someone is as alike as if he/she had been spit from another person s mouth …
63spitting feathers — n British exhibiting extreme enthusiasm or agitation. The colourful phrase is heard partic ularly in armed forces usage and probably evokes the squawking of a fran tic bird. It is one of many bird related images in colloquial speech, such as drop …
64spitting image — identical copy, similar to a wild image …
65spitting in one's face — scalding insult, offending someone …
66ˌspitting ˈimage — noun [C] informal someone who looks exactly like someone else …
67spitting image — spit′ting im′age n. spit • Etymology: 1925–30; from the phrase spit and image (see spit I) …
68spitting snake — /ˈspɪtɪŋ sneɪk/ (say spiting snayk) noun → ringhals …
69spitting image — Exact likeness. (Incorrect for Spit and image .) …
70spitting cobra — noun aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa; rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness • Syn: ↑black necked cobra, ↑Naja nigricollis • Hypernyms: ↑cobra • Member Holonyms: ↑Naja, ↑genus Naja …