@Frank Apisa,
"Spitting Image" versus "Spit and Image".
The common mis-phrasing is "Spitting" Image where "Spitting" is used as an adjective to describe the image (which makes no sense). But the original phrase, and the one which makes far more sense, is "Spit AND Image" which compares one person to another by physical qualities (spit) as well as image.