OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28203

dead ringer

Meanings (ES + gloss)
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Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.
He is a dead ringer for his grandfather at that age.
In 1987, in “The Rules of Attraction,” he wrote about casual sex and obsessive drug use among bored students of a dead ringer for Bennington College, which Mr. Ellis attended.
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