dead ringer | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.Synonyms:spitting image,double,doppelganger,lookalikeHe is adead ringerfor his grandfather at that age.2005August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, inThe New York Times‎[1],→ISSN:In 1987, in “The Rules of Attraction,” he wrote about casual sex and obsessive drug use among bored students of adead ringerfor Bennington College, which Mr. Ellis attended.2008,Wally Lamb,The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.19:On our next date, she told me I could come back home if I wanted to. There was one condition, though: couples counseling.Our therapist, the sari-wearing, no-nonsense Dr. Beena Patel, was adead ringerfor Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.2018February 28, Justine Jordan, “Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday review – a dizzying debut”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:Twentysomething Alice works in publishing, so is instantly in awe of this old man offering her chocolate with a trembling hand. He is world-famous writer Ezra Blazer, adead ringerfor Philip Roth, with whom Halliday had a relationship in her 20s.

Examples:

EN: And Eddie Black's a dead ringer for WC Fields.
ES: Y Eddie Black es idéntico de WC Fields.
EN: She's a dead ringer for her.
ES: Son idénticas.
EN: I knew a dame in Jersey once was a dead ringer for her.
ES: Recuerdo a una chica en Jersey, pero se llamaba Sue.
EN: You're all dressed up, but you're a dead ringer for one of them dirt-eaters we traded shots with last night.
ES: Se ha cambiado de ropa, pero parece uno de esos pastores de ovejas con quienes intercambiamos disparos anoche.
EN: A dead ringer.
ES: Es idéntico.
EN: Hey, did anybody ever tell you you're a dead ringer for...
ES: Oye, ¿te han dicho alguna vez que eres la doble de...?
EN: You're a dead ringer for an officer I used to know in the submarine service.
ES: Es idéntico a alguien que Conocí en el Servicio de Submarinos.
EN: It looks like a dead ringer, doesn't it?
ES: Es un duplicado exacto.
EN: Well, sir, that picture on the bulletin board out there it's a dead ringer for my girl.
ES: Tengo una novia que es el vivo retrato de la de ahí afuera.
EN: I'm a dead ringer for my father. Tom Devlin.
ES: Soy la viva imagen de mi padre, Tom Devlin.
EN: She's your dead ringer.
ES: Es tu doble.
EN: Man, you was a dead ringer for Clouseau.
ES: Hombre, eras idéntico a Clouseau.
EN: He's a dead ringer for Sataro.
ES: Es idéntico a Sataro.
EN: But then again, I'm always being told that I'm a dead ringer for Clint Eastwood.
ES: Me dicen que soy mal fisonomista, no reconocería ni a Clint Eastwood.
EN: - He's a dead ringer for me.
ES: - Es clavado a mí.

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