Tweedledum and Tweedledee

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• /ˌtwiːdəlˈdʌm ən ˌtwiːdəlˈdiː/
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From Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a pair of identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom.

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet — two persons or organizations deemed indistinguishable in some way
• Chinese Mandarin: 半斤八兩 /半斤八两 (bànjīnbāliǎng) — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• Esperanto: Fingrumad kaj Fingrumid — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• Estonian: eristamatud — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• French: Tralalère et Tralali — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• German: Duck und Doof — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• Italian: Pincopanco e Pancopinco — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• Italian: pappa e ciccia — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• Russian: Траляля́ и Труляля́ (Traljaljá i Truljaljá) — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• Spanish: Patachunta y Patachún — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• Spanish: Tararí y Tarará — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly
• Swedish: två likadana — people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly