The phrase "a spitting image of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who looks very much like another person, often a family member.
Example: "When I saw her son, I couldn't believe how he was a spitting image of his father."
Alternatives: "a dead ringer for" or "the spitting image of".
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.
Six foot tall, 80kg, size 12 footy boots, dark eyes and a brooding gaze – a spitting image of Lawrie as a teenager.
And she always brings Revis's daughter, Deyani, who at 1 year 10 months is already a spitting image of her father.
"He was such a spitting image of his grandfather that when he first appeared on TV, many North Koreans broke into tears, hailing him as the second coming of Kim Il-sung," said a South Korean intelligence official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.
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Gaga, who is nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media, looked like a spitting image of the late David Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust era.
At times she resembles a Spitting Image caricature of herself.
'If you're hoping for a Spitting Image demolition of the Iron Lady, this will disappoint,' says artistic director Naomi Cooke.
If you were to believe Gove (how I wish Spitting Image was on now – Gove already looks like a Spitting Image puppet of himself), you would think that the state education system was in a state of collapse and turns out only imbeciles, mouth-breathers, finger-counters and psychopaths.
Among more than 1,300 objects in the displays – many seen for the first time – there is a Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher, a suicide bomb vest, a battered suitcase and a drab desk of bent plywood with a blue cushioned bench.
A spitting image puppet of who he was.
