"You may have been misled by a chance resemblance."

A good analogy does not just invoke some chance resemblance between the thing being explained and the thing introduced to explain it.

He tightened the focus, held him in the circle of his glasses-no, a chance resemblance to an older man.

He had only been tempted in his loneliness by a chance resemblance to his beloved.

These are considered to be too many to explain as chance resemblance.

On the second, they argue that chance resemblances should be equally common across all word usage frequencies, in contrast to what the data shows.

A hunter as well; it was no chance resemblance.

Cassiopeia would never have picked out that peninsula's chance resemblance to Florida.

All that had been a chance resemblance, some gestures, a similarity in dress.

I studied his face in the mirror, wondering if I had been misled by a chance resemblance.