To draw a comparison is to point out how two things are alike. This crash and 1929; this player and one who retired before you were born.
It takes with or between: draw a comparison with the last recession, between the two brothers. The verb is the same drawing as in draw a conclusion — pulling something out and setting it in front of people — and it always implies a claim you could be wrong about. Draw a parallel is the near-identical twin, and invidious is the adjective that famously attaches to the wrong kind.
1phrasedraw a comparisonTo point out how two things are alike.
“It is tempting to draw a comparison with 1929.”
synonyms: draw a parallel
draw a comparison is an act of likening two things.
Practised in Common Word Pairs