kindred spirit

Penelope felt the deep satisfaction one can only enjoy when in the company of a kindred spirit.

If Hoover could get past his racist horror and outrage at seeing a brown-skinned son of Hindu immigrants in his former job — and he definitely couldn’t — he might just about be able to recognize Patel as a kindred spirit, or at least as a failed tribute act.

Candy graduated to lead roles in comedies like “Summer Rental,” “The Great Outdoors” and “Who’s Harry Crumb?,” and he found a kindred spirit in the writer and director John Hughes, who helped provide Candy with some of his most enduring roles in movies like “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” “Uncle Buck” and “Home Alone.”

Brown describes her character as a "kindred spirit" to Belly.

His only kindred spirit in that sense is Robbie Savage, who has taken the manager's job at Forest Green Rovers, currently second in the National League.