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What (who) is dead ringer - definition
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Dead ringer; Dead Ringers; Deadringer; Dead ringers; Dead Ringer (disambiguation)
dead ringer
¦ noun informal a person or thing that looks very like another: he's a dead ringer for his late papa.
Dead ringer (idiom)
ENGLISH IDIOM
Dead ringer is an idiom in English. It means "an exact duplicate" or "100% duplicate", and derives from 19th-century horse-racing slang for a horse presented "under a false name and pedigree"; "ringer" was a late nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually with implications of dishonesty, and "dead" in this case means "precise", as in "dead centre".
Dead Ringer Band
AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY MUSIC BAND
The Dead Ringer Band
Dead Ringer Band were an Australian family country music band. They are best known for their ARIA Award-winning album Home Fires which won the Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1996.
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Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer or Dead Ringers may refer to:
- Dead ringer (idiom)
Examples of use of dead ringer
1. She looked a dead ringer for best friend Posh, reigniting rumours that Victoria has been giving her style advice.
2. "I said I was going to keep on smiling," said Budy, 21, a dead ringer for the singer/actress Brandy.
3. Still, James Loye, a Welsh actor and a dead ringer for Elijah Wood, is cast as Frodo.
4. Dead ringer: Irish builder Michael McElinney (left) and the real Fabio Capello (right) Share this article: What is this?
5. With the vest unable to restrain his bulging beer–belly, the porky policeman was a dead ringer for one of the Fast Show‘s Fat Sweaty Coppers.