Dead ringer
Dead ringer noun - A person who is almost identical to another.
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Like and dead ringer are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Like" instead the phrase "Dead ringer" as an adjective or a noun.
Like
Like noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.
Dead ringer and like are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dead ringer" instead the word "Like" as an adjective or a noun.
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One of his costume ideas (a dead ringer for Black Vulcan) "looks like a battery advertisement." Most of them are either stupid or too similar to someone else's look.
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Lenny Balinger from Damage Control is a dead ringer for Lee Marvin, though he thinks he looks more like Paul Newman.
Source: Comic Book Fantasy Casting -
Shout-Out: In one of the DLC missions, you run into a used car salesman who is a dead ringer for Foghorn Leghorn, talking like him and even directly quoting him at several points.
Source: Video Game / L.A. Noire
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