Mutt and Jeff definition

From characters in a comic strip by U.S. cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, first published in 1908.

Names given to a pair of companions, usually male, of whom one is tall and the other short.

Of or pertaining to a pair of people referred to as "Mutt and Jeff".
- 1962, "Facial Farceur" (film review of A Matter of WHO), Time, 10 Aug.,
  
  The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up, Mutt-and-Jeff fashion.
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