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Dead ringer è un'espressione della lingua inglese per indicare un esatto duplicato, anche nel senso di doppelgänger .
So, ‘dead ringer’ is literally the same as ‘exact duplicate’. It first came into use soon after the word ringer itself, in the US at the end of the 19th century. The earliest reference I can find that confirms the ‘exact duplicate’ meaning is from the Oshkosh Weekly Times, June 1888, in a court report of a man charged with being ...
Originally titled Deadringer, the band was formed in late 1977 as a cover band in Leeds by Johnny "JJ" Hoyle, Neil Hudson, Al Scott, Lee Flaxington and Kenny Jones. They built up a core grassroots following throughout 1978, [4] and came to the attention of Virgin Records through their A&R man, who decided to manage the band when Virgin failed to sign them. [2]
Dead ringer (idiom) 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 ...
Dead Ringer. (film) Dead Ringer (also known as Who Is Buried in My Grave?) is a 1964 American psychological thriller made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Paul Henreid from a screenplay by Oscar Millard and Albert Beich, from the story La Otra by Rian James, previously filmed in a Mexican version starring Dolores del Río. [1]
Competing Theory. "Dead ringer" originates from people's fear of being buried alive. In the 18th century particularly, a dying person would asked, upon their death, to be buried with a rope that attached to a bell on the surface. If it transpired that the deceased was not in fact dead, then they could use the rope to ring the bell.
Short-lived hard rock group from the USA formed in the late 80s, featured Charlie Huhn (vocals), Jay Jesse Johnson (guitar), Joe Bouchard (keyboards, ex-Blue Öyster Cult), Dennis Dunaway (bass, ex-Alice Cooper) and Neal Smith (drums, ex-Alice Cooper), with all members sharing songwriting.
