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It is an idiom that means an exact reproduction or duplicate, or an uncanny resemblance. For example: When I saw his sister, I noticed they were a dead ringer for each other.
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dead ringer
noun
Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.
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Honestly, he's a dead ringer.
Robert Downey Jr.: dead ringer.
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It is usually a dead ringer for the real thing.
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").
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).
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