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In the late nineteenth century the full cliché developed: He’s the very spit and image of his father, followed by the folk etymology that replaced spit and with spitting (or spittin’ or spitten) image.
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tsuwm, are you saying that the phrase originated in error, or that it is deemed erroneous in usage today?
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