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Phrase(s): identify (oneself) with someone or something
to classify oneself with someone or something; to relate to someone or something; to see part of oneself represented in someone or something. • I identify myself with the others. • I identify with the birds and animals of the forest., Phrase(s): identify someone or something with someone or something
to associate people and things, in any combination. • I tend to identify Wally with big cars. • We usually identify green with grass. • We tend to identify big cars with greedy people.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs