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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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 Hyde Pierce's Sir Robin, whose long tresses make him a dead ringer for Charlotte Rampling, insists that "You Won't Succeed on Broadway (If You Haven't Any Jews)," which cues a wacky side trip to Fiddler on the Roof. 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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