kissing cousin
Example Sentences
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Not to be confused with its kissing cousin, the paradox of choice, in which too many options paralyze people from making any decision at all.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2016
Sneakily tweaking our fears of terrorism, “10 Cloverfield Lane,” though no more than a kissing cousin to its namesake, is smartly chilling and finally spectacular.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016
A few months later, during a cocktail class at Barmini, the cocktail lab next to Andrés’s extravagant Minibar here in the District, I got a chance to assemble its kissing cousin, the D.O.C.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2014
Shalhoub's emotionally explosive, overbearing opera manager is a kissing cousin of Max Bialystock, of "The Producers," and the actor bellows with a fine comic roar.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2010
No child of hers was going to forget her family name and think she was nothing but a kissing cousin to an orangutan.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
