A substitute for something.
A duplicate of the exact nature.
An imposter.
She is a dead ringer of one of my friends. I in fact walked up to her at an event mistaking her for my friend.
The car that is parked in that garage is a dead ringer of the car that my dad used to own a couple of years back.
I used to have a gold necklace which had a dead ringer fake, you would never be able to find out which is the real one.
I’ve heard that they change the crown jewels by their dead ringers so that they are protected from thieves. Is that true?
There is no origin for this idiom
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