From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin the image of somebody/somethingin the image of somebody/somethingliterarySAME in the same form or shape as someone or something else According to the Bible, man was made in the image of God. → image
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in the image of somebody/something• Pope, in a Swiftian moment, connects women's changes with dirt and, in the image of fly-blow, putrefaction.• People needed their candles, their lamps and their copper kettles, their slices of lemon in the image of the sun.• According to the Bible, man was made in the image of God. 