ringer (redirected from Ringers)

*(dead) ringer (for someone)

Fig. very closely similar in appearance to someone else. (*Typically: be ~; look like ~.) You are sure a dead ringer for my brother. Isn't he a ringer for Chuck?

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be a dead ringer for somebody/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.

See also: dead

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a dead ringer for somebody/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.

See also: dead