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- Dead_ringer_(idiom) abstract "Dead ringer; may also refer to a string tied to a bell on the head stone and then to the finger of a dead person who was to be buried as a fail safe for false death pronouncements. People hearing the bell ring presumably would dig up the person en-tombed. 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".".
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- Dead_ringer_(idiom) wikiPageID "39097850".
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) wikiPageRevisionID "602648866".
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) subject Category:English_idioms.
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) comment "Dead ringer; may also refer to a string tied to a bell on the head stone and then to the finger of a dead person who was to be buried as a fail safe for false death pronouncements. People hearing the bell ring presumably would dig up the person en-tombed.".
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) label "Dead ringer (idiom)".
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) sameAs m.0swlx30.
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) sameAs Q16954813.
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) sameAs Q16954813.
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) wasDerivedFrom Dead_ringer_(idiom)?oldid=602648866.
- Dead_ringer_(idiom) isPrimaryTopicOf Dead_ringer_(idiom).