He's a dead ringer for Bono from U2 - people often come up to him in the street and ask for his autograph.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
(a) dead ringer for something — 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 … New idioms dictionary
Dead Ringer for Love — UK 7 single cover Single by Meat Loaf featuring Cher from the album Dead Ringer … Wikipedia
(a) dead ringer for someone — 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 … New idioms dictionary
(a) dead ringer for — 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 … New idioms dictionary
be a dead ringer for someone — 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 … New idioms dictionary
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 … New idioms dictionary
dead ringer — noun 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. Syn: spitting image … Wiktionary
dead — 1 /ded/ adjective (no comparative) NO LONGER ALIVE OR EXISTING 1 no longer alive: Her mother had been dead for ten years. | dead leaves | dead body (=the body of a person who has died) | dead as a doornail/stone dead informal (=completely dead… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
ringer — I. /ˈrɪŋə / (say ringuh) noun 1. someone or something that rings, encircles, etc. 2. a quoit or horseshoe so thrown as to encircle a peg. 3. the throw itself. 4. → boxer2 (def. 1). 5. a stockworker; a cattle drover: *But the ordinary stockman,… …
dead — [[t]de̱d[/t]] ♦♦ 1) ADJ A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living. You re a widow? Yes. My husband s been dead a year now. ... The group had shot dead another hostage. ...their dead brother. ...old newspapers and dead flowers.… … English dictionary
