?What do you mean exactly the same? Where does it come from?

Source: Chapter 54 of "The Scholars" by Wu Jingzi of the Qing Dynasty: "When I looked up today, I saw that he had a yellow face and a bald head. He was the same as the aunt who grabbed him in the dream the day before yesterday. Exactly the same, I started to feel annoyed."

Definition: They look exactly the same.

Pronunciation: yī mo yī yang

Synonyms: not the same at all, exactly the same

Antonyms: completely different from each other

Example:

1. The clones will be identical.

2. My daughter looks exactly like me.

3. He looks exactly like his brother.

4. A Fiat passed by and did exactly the same thing as Renault.

5. Sir Roccoforte and I expressed exactly the same view when talking about good hotels.

6. I have done the exact same thing and my career path has not been affected in any way.

7. Interestingly, the exact same phenomenon can be found in Mexico: wages and employment rates of non-production workers have increased.

8. In his initialed box were several bones, colored in exactly the same way as the Piltdown Man fossils.

9. In effect, both systems are delayed, but the delays are exactly the same.

10. Therefore, the return of optimism in Western markets seems to have prompted investors to place exactly the same bets as before the crisis.

11. The two sisters look exactly the same.

12. My brother and I look exactly the same.

13. These kittens look exactly the same - how can you tell which is which?

14. This code does exactly the same thing, but uses fewer characters.

15. How come we look exactly the same?

16. No two people can look exactly the same.

17. She is exactly like her sister.

18. She is exactly the same as her mother.

19. In fact, I also have premenstrual syndrome like my mother, who also had it when she was in her 30s. The situation when I was pregnant for the first time (with a girl) was almost the same as my mother’s 35 years ago. It was exactly the same when you were pregnant with me.

20. She decorated the room exactly like the hotel room we stayed in last year.