dead ringer
Spitting image equivalent
A dead ringer is someone or something that looks exactly like another—an uncanny double.
Dead here intensifies, meaning absolute or exact: She's a dead ringer for her grandmother at that age.
The phrase comes from horse racing, where a ringer was a horse secretly substituted for another to fix a race.
Supernatural duplicate of oneself
- lookalikeOne who closely resembles another
- twinOne of matched pair
- doubleTwice the amount
- cloneGenetically identical organism
spitting image · carbon copy · mirror image · replica · duplicate · counterpart · likeness · match
Disturbingly strange
- spookyUnsettlingly strange
- unnervingCausing loss of composure
- chillingCausing fear or cold
- creepyDisturbingly strange
unsettling · ghostly · surreal · otherworldly · haunting · preternatural · bizarre · mysterious
doppelganger
Supernatural duplicate of oneself
clone · spitting image · carbon copy · mirror image · replica · duplicate · counterpart · likeness · match · facsimile
eerie
Disturbingly strange
creepy · unsettling · ghostly · surreal · otherworldly · haunting · preternatural · bizarre · mysterious · inexplicable
- doublesdouble, doubles, twin, twins, duplicate
- Family Resemblancespitting image, identical twins, look-alike, family resemblance, takes after
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, break a leg, barking up the wrong tree
- imitationcopy, copycat, imitation, mimicking, replica
- impersonationimpersonator, mimic, imitate, imitation, impressionist
- Old Idiomsbeyond the pale, hue and cry, scot-free, knight in shining armor, eat humble pie
dead ringerpolar opposite
Complete contrary in nature
complete opposite · antithesis · worlds apart · night and day · unrecognizable
dead ringerthe real thing
Authentic original version
authentic · bona fide · one of a kind · unique · irreplaceable