What is "tweedledee"

Usage examples of "tweedledee".

You can be explicitly pro-Nazi without claiming to be a pacifist -- and there is a very strong case for the Nazis, though not many people in this country have the courage to utter it -- but you can only pretend that Nazism and capitalist democracy are Tweedledum and Tweedledee if you also pretend that every horror from the June purge onwards has been cancelled by an exactly similar horror in England.

Meeting Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, and various animals, insects and chess pieces do not seem to charm us as the earlier book did.

The two heads turned, like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and nodded solemnly in tempo.

I forget their names, but thought of them as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, one fair, one dark, but identical in gaiety, indiscretion, and breezy but deferential attention to me - Tweedledee knew of me by name and fame, and was athirst for reminiscences, but since Tweedledum's interest was merely polite, and I'm an old hand at not being pumped, it was child's play to steer the conversation elsewhere.

Well, that square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- the Fifth is mostly water -- the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty -- but you make no remark?

They've gone home all right -- in the same way that Tweedledum and Tweedledee have gone home.

The robots, clothed in hair of ape and white of rabbit, arose: Tweedledum following Tweedledee, Mock-Turtle, Dormouse, drowned bodies from the sea compounded of salt and whiteweed, swaying.