An alternative alliteration for describing people as being like chalk and cheese.  Feel free to use it to inject some variety into your phrasing.

‘Him and th’ old Squire fit one another like frost and flowers.’

Source: George Eliot, Adam Bede (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 (1859)), p. 251

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