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The phrase "a dead ringer for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone or something closely resembles another person or thing.
Example: "When I saw the new actor in the movie, I thought he was a dead ringer for the famous singer from the 90s."
Alternatives: "a spitting image of" or "a carbon copy of".
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Dead ringer.
100% identical.
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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.
Seth Maxwell, the sly good ol' boy quarterback, was a dead ringer for Dandy Don Meredith.
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