If there's such a thing as a chip off the old block, it's on my shoulder.
When he points to the pictures of his ancestors on the walls, the visitors feel that they are being shown them by a chip off the old block.
We feel that his son is a chip off the old block.
Those of us who knew and loved his father will recognise a chip off the old block.
He really is a chip off the old block.
If it were not inelegant to say so, it is not a chip off the old block which we have, but the old block itself.
Everybody says I'm a chip off the old block, remarked Paul, quite at his ease.
