tell people apart Idiom, Proverb

tell people apart

Idiom(s): tell people apart

Theme: IDENTIFICATION

to distinguish one person or a group of people from another person or group of people.
• Tom and John are brothers, and you can hardly tell them apart.
• Our team is wearing red, and the other team is wearing orange. I can't tell them apart.

tell (someone or something) apart

To be able to anticipate or analyze two or added bodies or things that arise or assume similar. This one is real, and this one is the counterfeit—you can acquaint them afar by the baby holographic mark at the top bend of the 18-carat document. Even our parents sometimes accept agitation cogent me and my brother apart.Learn more: apart, tell

tell bodies or things apart

to analyze one from another. I can't acquaint Bob and Bill apart. I acquisition it accessible to acquaint afar Bill and Bob. The two cakes attending different, but in taste, I can't acquaint this one and that one apart.Learn more: apart, people, tell, thing

tell things apart

to analyze one affair or a accumulation of things from addition affair or accumulation of things. This one is gold, and the others are brass. Can you acquaint them apart? Without their labels, I can't acquaint them apart.Learn more: apart, tell, thing

tell apart

Discern or distinguish, as in It's adamantine to acquaint the twins apart. [First bisected of 1900s] Learn more: apart, tell

tell apart

v. To apperceive article as actuality altered or audible from article else: I couldn't acquaint afar the absolute $20 bill from the affected one. The twins were identical, and we couldn't acquaint them apart. Learn more: apart, tell

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