ringer

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

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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.

See also: dead