a dead ringer

a dead ringer
(a dead ringer (for smb. или smth.))
точная копия (кого-л. или чего-л.)

Believe it or not, it's an orangoutang... It can talk and it's a dead ringer for McKinley. Mr. Horace Wickersham is with me here with a picture of McKinley in his hand - (F. S. Fitzgerald, ‘The Last Tycoon’, ch. V) — Поверите или нет, но это орангутанг... Он может говорить и как две капли воды похож на президента Мак-Кинли. Рядом со мной стоит мистер Хорас Викершем и держит фото Мак-Кинли в руке...

The room was too much like the room at home. It was a dead ringer. (S. Chaplin, ‘The Watchers and the Watched’, ch. 4) — Комната точь-в-точь такая же, как у них дома. Тютелька в тютельку.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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