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follow in one's footsteps

[follow in one's footsteps] also [follow in one's tracks] {v. phr.}

To follow someone's example; follow someone exactly,

/He followed in his father's footsteps and became a doctor./

Compare: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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