WotD: Carbon copy

The term carbon copy originates from the use of black sheets of carbon paper, which were once used to make instant, exact copies of forms, bills, or anything else you wanted to write down and copy.

I haven’t seen carbon paper used in a dog’s age, but if you use email, and you probably do, you may have used the CC or BCC functions. CC, of course, stands for carbon copy, and the B in BCC stands for blind.

These days, though, whenever we want to say that a son looks exactly like his father, we can say, “Look at him. It’s uncanny. He’s a carbon copy of his old man, the spit right out of his mouth.”

OK, so it may not sound too appealing, but where I’m from, the expression ‘the spit right out of his mouth’ is used to say that a son looks exactly like his father.

It’s part of the local dialect, and I just added it here to add some local flavour.

I am who I am and can’t change where I come from.

Anyways, carbon copy is a handy term to know, and you can use it in almost any situation where two things are the same.

Today, I chose a picture of the iconic Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to illustrate this.

These towers are famous because they are twins or carbon copies of each other.

They used to be the tallest towers in the world, but not anymore.

However, they are still the tallest twin towers in the world.

A child can be a carbon copy of a parent in looks and how they act.

Sometimes a young girl will walk like and have her mother’s mannerisms.

If that’s the case, you could say she’s a carbon copy of her mom.

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