"a spitting image" is a commonly used phrase in written English.
It is used to describe someone or something that looks exactly like another person or thing. For example, "The little girl was a spitting image of her mother - she had the same eyes, nose, and mouth."
Intuitively, however, what happens to someone other than Socrates in some other world — even a spitting image of him in a world that is a spitting image of ours — has no more to do with what could have happened to him than does what happens to someone who resembles him in, say, New York City.
"It's a Spitting Image reunion" - Broadcaster and satirist Charlie Brooker.
At times she resembles a Spitting Image caricature of herself.
"It's hard to think of her except as a Spitting Image puppet.
'If you're hoping for a Spitting Image demolition of the Iron Lady, this will disappoint,' says artistic director Naomi Cooke.
One result was the era's highest accolade: a Spitting Image parody, which showed Stock, Aitken and Waterman in puppet form singing "She's been oh so lucky... in us".
This is a reference to their video for a less sophisticated number, Liar Liar Danny Dyer, featuring a Spitting Image-style caricature of the actor.
The day after Thatcher's death, the audience at the Victoria Palace theatre, London performance voted to keep those lines in – and the cast obliged, singing as usual to a Spitting Image-style inflatable Thatcher.
Now, with Doppelgänger Dogs, Inc., you can rent, lease, or buy a spitting-image surrogate animal that may be trotted out to the approving nods of all those who used to tsk-tsk at your overfed Fido.
No longer a grey drone a la Spitting Image, Major has been dug up as the human remains of social mobility.
In his room, checkered green racing flags among monochromatic-realist paintings of Nascar scenes complement stars and stripes by photos of a Raymond Pettibon (spitting image of Chevy Chase) sweaty and digging through a bucket of baseball bats.
