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What does the figurative language a chip off the old block mean?

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The expression, a chip off the old block means that people who resemble their parents in some way. For example, you could say <span>“Mark just won the same sailboat race his father won twenty years ago; he's a </span>chip off the old block<span>.”</span>

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