Everybody says I'm a chip off the old block, remarked Paul, quite at his ease.
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.
He really is a chip off the old block.
Those of us who knew and loved his father will recognise a chip off the old block.
We feel that his son is a chip off the old block.
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.
If there's such a thing as a chip off the old block, it's on my shoulder.
