1) Amazing resemblance 2) Clone in horror films 3) Deceased campanologist 4) Double 5) English-language idiom 6) Exact lookalike 7) Perfect double 8) Seeming clone 9) Spitting image 10) Twin
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back in the day (whenever that was), they used to bury people with bells on their chest in case they weren`t really dead yet. In such a case a person buried alive could ring the bell and be saved (not sure if this ever happened). So now when one is referred to as a `dead ringer` for someone else, they would have been dead and rang the bell and ......
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ringer
[idiom] Dead ringer is an idiom in English. A ringer is defined in October 1882 in the Manitoba Free Press: `A horse that is taken through the country and trotted under a false name and pedigree is called a `ringer.`. The idiom dead ringer` means `an exact duplicate`. ==In popular culture== `Dead Ringer` is a song on The Stranglers `No More...
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clone noun a person who is almost identical to another
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https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974
a person or thing that closely resembles another; ringer: That old car is a dead ringer for the one we used to own.
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