(dead) ringer (for someone)

(dead) ringer (for someone)
*a (dead) ringer (for someone)
Fig. very closely similar in appearance to someone else. (*Typically: be \(dead) ringer (for someone); look like \(dead) ringer (for someone).) •

You are sure a dead ringer for my brother.

Isn't he a ringer for Chuck?


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • (a) dead ringer for something — a dead ringer for (someone/something) someone or something that looks exactly like someone or something else. Our waiter was a dead ringer for Humphrey Bogart. My silver blue ‘64 Buick was a dead ringer for the one Sinatra drove in that movie …   New idioms dictionary

  • (a) dead ringer for — a dead ringer for (someone/something) someone or something that looks exactly like someone or something else. Our waiter was a dead ringer for Humphrey Bogart. My silver blue ‘64 Buick was a dead ringer for the one Sinatra drove in that movie …   New idioms dictionary

  • be a dead ringer for something — be a dead ringer for (someone/something) to look very similar to someone or something. He s a dead ringer for Bono from U2 people often come up to him in the street and ask for his autograph …   New idioms dictionary

  • be a dead ringer for — (someone/something) to look very similar to someone or something. He s a dead ringer for Bono from U2 people often come up to him in the street and ask for his autograph …   New idioms dictionary

  • dead ringer — n someone who looks exactly like someone else dead ringer for ▪ Dave s a dead ringer for Paul McCartney …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • dead ringer — noun Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another. He is a dead ringer for his grandfather at that age. Syn: spitting image …   Wiktionary

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