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dead ringer
noun
a person or thing that closely resembles another; ringer.
That old car is a dead ringer for the one we used to own.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dead ringer1
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Example Sentences
They’re pretty much dead ringers for each other, especially when they showed up to Augusta National this week wearing the same gray quarter-zip pullovers.
Tom Hollander is a dead ringer for Capote, while Naomi Watts’ Babe Paley is stunning and tragic.
And, he wrote, their focus on the specifics of their situations ignored Bruen’s guidance that a historic law does not have to be a “dead ringer” to support a modern one.
The cashier was mum on the “secret sauce,” but that chili mayo is a dead ringer for the popular bang bang sauce.
They are doppelgangers, dead ringers with basset hound eyes a signature feature.
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