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Dead Ringer (other)
Dead Ringer or Dead Ringers may refer to: * Dead ringer (idiom) Books * ''The Dead Ringer'', a 1948 mystery novel by Fredric Brown bibliography, Fredric Brown * ''Dead Ringer'', novel in the ''Rosato & Associates'' series * Dead Ringer (comics), ''Dead Ringer'' (comics), a List of mutants in Marvel Comics, Marvel Comics character Film and television * Dead Ringer (1964 film), ''Dead Ringer'' (1964 film), starring Bette Davis, Peter Lawford, and Karl Malden * Dead Ringer (1981 film), ''Dead Ringer'' (1981 film), directed by Allan F. Nicholls * Dead Ringer (CSI), "Dead Ringer" (''CSI''), a fourth-season episode of ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' * Dead Ringers (comedy), ''Dead Ringers'' (comedy), a British satirical programme, which exists in television and radio versions * Dead Ringers (film), ''Dead Ringers'' (film), a 1988 film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jeremy Irons as identical twin gynecologists * Dead Ringers (TV series), ''Dead Ringers'' (TV series), a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Ringer (idiom)
Dead ringer is an idiom in English. It means "an exact duplicate" or "100% duplicate", and derives from 19th-century horse-racing slang for a horse presented "under a false name and pedigree"; "ringer" was a late nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually with implications of dishonesty, and "dead" in this case means "precise", as in "dead centre". Citing the '' Manitoba Free Press'', October 1882. The term is sometimes said to derive, like "saved by the bell", from a custom of providing a cord in coffins for someone who has been buried alive to ring a bell to call for help, but this appears to be a folk etymology Folk etymology (also known as popular etymology, analogical reformation, reanalysis, morphological reanalysis or etymological reinterpretation) is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more famili .... References English-language idioms {{vocab-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |