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     Bette Davis

     Margaret DeLorca/Edith Phillips
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     Karl Malden

     Sergeant Jim Hobbson
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     Peter Lawford

     Tony Collins
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     Philip Carey

     Sergeant Hoag
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     Jean Hagen

     Dede Marshall
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     George Macready

     Paul Harrison

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2. m.imdb.com › title › tt0057997Dead Ringer (1963) - IMDb

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   Dead Ringer: Directed by Paul Henreid. With Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey. The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

3. en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Dead_ringer_(idiom)Dead ringer (idiom) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. www.todayifoundout.com › 2014 › 05Origin of the Phrase “Dead Ringer” - Today I Found Out

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   May 22, 2014 · May 22, 2014 Emily Upton. Dustin asks: Where did the expression “dead ringer” come from? You have probably heard the often-repeated story about how the original “dead ringer” was a person believed to be dead who was then buried alive.

5. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryDEAD RINGER | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   someone or something that looks very similar to someone or something else: dead ringer for He's a dead ringer for Bono from U2. Synonym. ringer. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Describing people with the same qualities. a tough/tricky, etc. customer idiom. be cast in the same mold idiom. be of like mind idiom. be of the same mind idiom

6. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishDEAD RINGER FOR SOMEONE/SOMETHING - Cambridge Dictionary

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   collocation. Add to word list. someone or something that looks very similar to someone or something else: She's a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe. His new girlfriend is a dead ringer for his ex-wife. See. dead ringer. Fewer examples. The manager of the Swiss team was a dead ringer for Santa Claus.

7. www.dictionary.com › browse › dead-ringerDEAD RINGER Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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   Dead ringer definition: a person or thing that closely resembles another; ringer. See examples of DEAD RINGER used in a sentence.

8. www.grammar-monster.com › sayings_proverbs › dead_ringer"Dead Ringer" | Origin and Meaning - Grammar Monster

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   Dead Ringer (Origin) What Is the Origin of the Saying "Dead Ringer"? The term "dead ringer" means 100% identical or an exact copy. Examples of Use: Your daughter is a dead ringer for your wife. Wow, it's like you've stolen my dog! She is a dead ringer for my Suzie. Is that watch a fake? It's a dead ringer for the real thing.