ringer for someone

ringer for someone

verb
See dead ringer for someone
See also: ringer, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • bank on someone
  • look like a (dead) ringer for (someone)
  • look like a ringer
  • accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
  • accompany on a journey
  • a stranger to (someone or something)
  • be out of (one's) league
  • be out of somebody's league
  • be in bad with (someone)
  • arouse
References in periodicals archive
"Embarrassingly, they thought I was a dead ringer for someone else off the box - Mr Bean!
They Said What?
Eck isn't the only manager in the Scottish game who happens to be a ringer for someone else.
John Hillcoat
AND so to PHILLIP SCHOFIELD's waxwork, which, in the grand tradition of Madame Tussaud's, is a dead ringer for someone completely different.
UK Confidential
If you know anyone who's a Dead Ringer for someone famous, send their picture to us.
Strikes? Major can't beef now
I've never seen such a dead ringer for someone else and as he handed me (there we go again) the keys to (V)room (V)room 130 I couldn't help but ask him if anybody else had commented on his similarity in appearance to the French basketball player.
Thierry's handling things again