英语词汇“dead ringer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Originally U.S. A person or thing that looks very like another; a double. Chiefly with for. Frequently in dead ringer (cf. the dead ring at ring n.² 7).

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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > one who resembles another

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1878 Weekly Register-call (Central City, Colorado) 6 Sept. 1/4 The knight of La Mancha storming a wind mill, is a ‘dead ringer’, so to speak, for Windy Bill riding down a phalanx of Mexicans on a long-eared mule.

1891 Sporting Times (N.Y.) 4 July 10/4 Homan is a ‘dead-ringer’ for Anson.

1903 ‘O. Henry’ in Ainslee's Mar. 129/2 The man was a ringer for the pictures of the fat Weary Willie in the funny papers.

1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xiii. 174 Now you're in these pretty clothes you're the dead ringer of the brightest kind of American engineer.

1934 D. Hammett in Collier's 13 Jan. 12/1 ‘Look’, he said out of the side of his mouth, ‘that's a ringer for the guy we got—’ ‘That's the guy’, I said, and we went down the steps behind him.

1946 New Yorker 16 Mar. 22/1 The Nissen hut..which were [sic] dead ringers for the council lodges the Iroquois Indians used to build.

1959 Punch 21 Oct. 251/1 He [sc. a shark] has life pretty easy and apart from the gill-rakers is a ringer for Patrick Joseph.

1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection xiii. 92 There is little doubt that the average person's view of Hell—sizzling, choking, sulfurous, and red—is a dead ringer for the surface of Venus.

1985 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder II in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 145/1 I have been wondering..why you should think that Baldrick with a bag on his head is going to be a dead ringer for Lord Farrow.

2005 Independent 19 Jan. (Property section) 13/4 There is another ticket inspector, a ringer for Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, whose name is Simon de Montfort.

单词	dead ringer
释义	> as lemmas dead ringer a. Originally U.S. A person or thing that looks very like another; a double. Chiefly with for. Frequently in dead ringer (cf. the dead ring at ring n.² 7). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > one who resembles another the secondc1386 similitudec1405 likenessa1500 resembler1570 similar1653 resemblance1794 ringer1878 1878 Weekly Register-call (Central City, Colorado) 6 Sept. 1/4 The knight of La Mancha storming a wind mill, is a ‘dead ringer’, so to speak, for Windy Bill riding down a phalanx of Mexicans on a long-eared mule. 1891 Sporting Times (N.Y.) 4 July 10/4 Homan is a ‘dead-ringer’ for Anson. 1903 ‘O. Henry’ in Ainslee's Mar. 129/2 The man was a ringer for the pictures of the fat Weary Willie in the funny papers. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xiii. 174 Now you're in these pretty clothes you're the dead ringer of the brightest kind of American engineer. 1934 D. Hammett in Collier's 13 Jan. 12/1 ‘Look’, he said out of the side of his mouth, ‘that's a ringer for the guy we got—’ ‘That's the guy’, I said, and we went down the steps behind him. 1946 New Yorker 16 Mar. 22/1 The Nissen hut..which were [sic] dead ringers for the council lodges the Iroquois Indians used to build. 1959 Punch 21 Oct. 251/1 He [sc. a shark] has life pretty easy and apart from the gill-rakers is a ringer for Patrick Joseph. 1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection xiii. 92 There is little doubt that the average person's view of Hell—sizzling, choking, sulfurous, and red—is a dead ringer for the surface of Venus. 1985 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder II in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 145/1 I have been wondering..why you should think that Baldrick with a bag on his head is going to be a dead ringer for Lord Farrow. 2005 Independent 19 Jan. (Property section) 13/4 There is another ticket inspector, a ringer for Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, whose name is Simon de Montfort. extracted from ringern.¹ < as lemmas
随便看	to fatten up to fault a person with or that to fault down or through to fault it to fault with or that to faultiness to fawn on, upon to fawn upon to fay in to fay upon long to feague away to feague it away to fear flee etc the face of to fear flee from the face of to fear no colours to fear of to fear of rarely at to fear offence to fear the face of to fear the worst to feast away to feast one's eyes on to feast with panthers to feat oneself forth to feather an oar

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