first cousin

Noun

Meaning

the child of your aunt or uncle

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We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism. Margaret Thatcher

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it. Gregory David Roberts

Jim Crow is dead. But his sophisticated, college-educated, urbane first cousin J. Crow, Esquire, is alive and kicking. Yolanda King

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin. Jerry Garcia

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. Lee Child

Misery and poverty are two sisters; discord is their first cousin. Corsican Proverb

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