DEAD RINGER Definition & Meaning

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dead ringer

noun

Slang.

a person or thing that closely resembles another; ringer:
That old car is a dead ringer for the one we used to own.

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Origin of dead ringer¹

First recorded in 1890–95

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Idioms and Phrases

A person or thing that closely resembles another; an exact counterpart. For example, Brian's a dead ringer for his Dad , or That red bike is a dead ringer for Mary's . [Late 1800s]

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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.

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Tom Hollander is a dead ringer for Capote, while Naomi Watts’ Babe Paley is stunning and tragic.

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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.

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The cashier was mum on the “secret sauce,” but that chili mayo is a dead ringer for the popular bang bang sauce.

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They are doppelgangers, dead ringers with basset hound eyes a signature feature.

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