Birds of a feather flock together....?

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What does that mean…?

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I am with you because you understand better

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It just means that similar people hang out with each other.

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@san_pedro You are missing a few words in that idiom. It’s supposed to be, “Birds of the same feather, flock together”. The analogy is birds, animals and humans of the same feather, fur or skin flock together or group together.

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I’ve heard it Pedro’s way.

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@Bowens Well, the idiom makes no sense without “the same feather” than “of a feather flock together”, does it not?

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I don’t know. It’s a little clunky but that is the way I’ve heard it. Birds of a feather flock together. Just an old saying. From google:

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birds of a feather flock together
phrase of bird
PROVERB
people of the same sort or with the same tastes and interests will be found together.
“these health professionals were birds of a feather”

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I agree with Pedro/Bowens. It might not be grammatically correct, but its how the idiom is said.

In fact the dictionary definition of idiom even suggests that this itself is what an idiom is (a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words)

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