See of a piece in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:",
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"ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 375, about Terling:",
"text": "Further along, the road passes a low E-shape of red-brick estate buildings, obviously modern, yet all of a piece with this sensible, attractive and businesslike village.",
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"Of the same kind."
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"(idiomatic) Of the same kind."
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"word": "aus einem Guss"
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see of, a, piece."
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{
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"word": "aus einem Guss"
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"word": "of a piece"
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