Birds of a feather flock together

Russian translation

Птицы с одинаковым оперением собираются вместе.

Люди сходных характеров, вкусов или рода занятий обычно общаются и солидарны друг с другом.

Derivation

Birds of feather. To stick together.

Variation

Birds of a feather fly (stick) together.

Synonyms

Like to like. Deep will call to deep.

Comparison

Рыбак рыбака видит издалека.

Масть к масти подбирается.

Свой своему поневоле брат.

Examples

You never know... what makes two women stick together. Birds of a feather flock together, that's the old saying. Still it's strange. (Miller)

“And don't sit there, mum, like a good little puss! I thought you required some of that same treatment yourself.” “Me?” Sally said, and looked at him sideways. “You,” he said drily. “Birds of a feather are now going to fly together. In other words, my invitation was not so selfish as it sounded. I might need your sympathetic ear. But you, my sweet Sally, need a load of big-brotherly advice, too.” (Beaty)

Of no city, in my experience, is this more true than of Paris. There high society seldom admits outsiders into its midst, the politicians live in their own corrupt circle, the bourgeoisie, great and small, frequent one another, writers congregate with writers... painters hobnob with painters and musicians with musicians. The same thing is true of London, but in a less marked degree; these birds of a feather flock much less together, and there are a dozen houses where at the same table you may meet a duchess, an actress, a painter, a member of Parliament, a lawyer, a dressmaker and an author. (Maugham)

He isn't manly, but he's older and experienced. I wouldn't be surprised if he understood Hedda better than anybody does. I think they're birds of a feather. (O'Hara)

From what I can gather, if Jan's doctor when she had pleurisy had been that alarmist young woman you dislike so much, this mightn't have happened at all. Not that they said so much. All these doctors stick together. It's what they don't say that's significant. (Cusack)

His expenses were twopence a day food and fourpence for his bed in a cafe full of other birds of his feather. (Galsworthy)

The four girls rose from their table and one put on the gramophone. They began to dance together in a graceful slow old-fashioned style. Their balloon skirts swung like silver censers and showed their slender legs the color of young deer; they smiled gently to each other and held one another a little apart. They were beautiful and undifferentiated, like birds of the same plumage. (Greene)