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Spitting image

Posted by STEVEN SMITH on September 02, 2001

I beleive the true origin of the phrase to be from a black smith's vocabulary. A sand pit in which a mold has been set and then hot iron poured into is called a spit. And the item that was molded was the spitting image of the original.

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