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1 the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee
почти никакой разницы; ≈ что в лоб, что по лбу [выражение первонач. относилось к двум враждующим музыкальным школам в Европе первой половины XVIII в., которые по существу почти ничем не отличались друг от друга; выражение создано поэтом Дж. Байромом (J. Byrom, 1692-1763):Some say, compar'd to BuononciniThat Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;‘Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee.’ (‘On the Feuds between Handel and Buononcini’, 1725)]; см. тж. tweedledum and tweedledeeAlthough Swift could not see the difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, posterity has not shared the Dean's contempt for Handel... (W. Thackeray, ‘The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century’, ‘Hogarth, Smollett and Fielding’) — Хотя Свифт и не видел никакой разницы между двумя враждовавшими музыкальными школами, последующие поколения не могут разделить его презрения к Генделю...
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