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be a dead ringer for someone/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 a dead ringer for someone/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 |
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``The '50s, '60s and '70s are the ideal,'' adds the 36-year-old Trachtenburg, a retro-clad dead ringer for Rick Moranis with a knack for creating indie-rock songs to accompany vintage slides that he picks up at yard sales. David Cronenberg's creepily brilliant Dead Ringers (Warner Home Video, $19. Although the palette Johnson chose for her bubbling colony of yeast is a dead ringer for that of the seventeenth-century masterpiece it's meant to mimic, the sweet-hued watercolor rods and blossoms seem weirdly overdetermined in their pursuit of the original image, giving the work a forced, unnatural quality that is actually heightened by the "natural" material on which the forms are based. |
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