What is Dead Ringer?
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1)When someone looks very similar to someone else; a lookalike.
2)dead ringer(s); A a show on BCC 2(or is it 1?) were impersonators do impressions of celebrities.
"Wow, that guy's a dead ringer for Elvis Presley, I thought he was back from the dead!"
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1. a person or thing that looks exactly like anther person or thing
2. an exact duplicate
That bear is a dead ringer of the one that was found in the pool.
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A movie (actually titled "Dead Ringers") directed by David Cronenberg telling the story of identical twin gynecologists - Elliot and Beverly, played by the ever boring Jeremy Irons - One is shy and normal per se, the other, a total
"I watched "Dead Ringers" and left the theatre feeling like a psychopath for having not left earlier."
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In old england people would be accidentally buried alive. When they finally realized this they decided to tie a bell to their wrist this way they could ring it if they were alive once buried. those who watched the graves at night is where they got the phrase "Graveyard Shift".
We've got a dead ringer.
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