来自伊索寓言的一个小故事
A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.”
OED搜索like,有类似的,like draws to like
Each of two things considered in respect of their likeness to each other, esp. when that likeness explains or has a specific effect on the relationship between the things. Chiefly in proverbial expressions,