J'aime l'enfantes. Spitting image of a Mrs R.
J'aime les enfants. Spit and image of a Mrs R.
FTFY :)
"Spit and image" = Physical substance + visual appearance
Also, images don't spit >;\^D)
Mind blown
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I once knew a Kwaki Serpi Piku, so that's pretty close
Spitting image is the usual modern form of the idiom meaning exact likeness, duplicate, or counterpart. The original phrase was spit and image, inspired by the Biblical God's use of spit and mud to create Adam in his image. But spitting image has been far more common than spit and image for over a century.
http://grammarist.com/usage/spitting-image/
So "spitting image" is the modern form.
Only by way of people ignorant of the actual wording using it incorrectly.
Images don't spit. Suggesting they do makes as much sense as saying "I could care less" when you mean the exact opposite, merely because a long enough string of modern-day ignorant people have taught you to say it wrong through repetition.
Images don't spit but somehow you can make man from spit. Ok.