Cut From The Same Cloth Meaning

(idiomatic, of two or more persons or things) Very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.

Example: 1914, Julian Hawthorne, The Subterranean Brotherhood, ch. 6:
  [T]hese men are no more lost souls than we are—are, in fact, woven out of the same yarn and cut from the same cloth.
1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, Her Father's Daughter, ch. 15:
  "Now ain't they jist the finest gentlemen?" said Katy. "Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father."
1997 Oct. 3, Stephen Holden, "Film Review: Casanova Complex," New York Times (retrieved 4 July 2011):
  Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs.
2009 Jan. 6, Jeff Israely, "Rome Eyes Russian Orthodox Church Vote," Time:
  Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth — fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects.