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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a dead ringer" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that closely resembles another person or thing, often in appearance.
Example: "When I saw her, I couldn't believe how much she was a dead ringer for my old friend from college."
Alternatives: "a spitting image" or "a carbon copy".
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Honestly, he's a dead ringer.
Levine was a dead ringer for Iggy Pop.
By the end, she's a dead ringer for Aphrodite.
I said she was a dead ringer for Barbara Gladstone.
(She is nearly a dead ringer for Botticelli's "Venus Rising").
It is usually a dead ringer for the real thing.
Our guide was Rod, a dead ringer for Paul Hogan.
Maru is nearly a dead ringer for a cat who brightened my life for 16 years.
(Le Toux is also a dead ringer for the club's striker Kenny Cooper).
There, he discovers that he's being shadowed by a dead ringer for the young Samuel Beckett.
In several extreme close-ups Ms. Quinton is a dead ringer for Monroe.
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