My fiance and I are planing on going there for our honeymoon this summer. Were thinking of staying at either Sydney or Brisbane, are any of you on here from down under.
Also have any of you A...
I have many, here's a sample : "Are there any parking meters on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park?"
During brekky in Melb "We'll be back late for lunch, just taking a ...
ok, know that I got you here, here's the real question, how big is AC/DC in Australia? obviously that's where they're from and all and they used to play there all the time when they ...
I'm moving to sydney for a yr, i will have a bank account over there eventually - but until i get that set up I obv need to take cash with me. I was going to get it changed here in the uk before ...
I am Australian but have been living in South African, the USA and now New Zealand for most of my life. I'm currently in Adeladie on holiday and couldn't help noticing that Australians say ...
The term is often (wrongly) related to an old English fear that you might be buried alive. After exhuming a number of coffins and finding scratch marks on the inside of 1 in 25 of them, it was realised that many people were not quite dead when they were buried. Cemetaries started tying a string around the wrist of the corpse which was attached to a bell on top of the grave. If the bell rang, the graveyard employees had to dig it up and find out whether there was anyone alive in it. They even had to employ someone to stay there all night and listen for bells (thus the phrase 'graveyard shift').
Because of the above, some sources will say that the popular phrase 'dead ringer' implies that you look like a particular person, returned to life. That's not quite right. A ringer is another word for impostor. It's often used to describe a professional athlete competing in amateur competitions, or a talented racing horse disguised as another so it can win the race easily. A 'dead ringer' is an impostor whose impersonation is 'dead on' perfect. The old graveyard fears have nothing to do with it as far as I know.
So -- a 'dead ringer' is a perfect impostor, or someone who bears a perfect resemblance to someone else.
Hope that explains it.
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I don't know... my poor English sends me to a man burried with his cellphone in his coffin, lol
Phoenix
A ringer was originally a race horse which looked similar enough to another to pass for it in a race.
A not very good horse would be entered in a race and a much better 'ringer' would be substituted for it. This would enable those in the know to bet large sums at very good odds.
A 'dead ringer' was a horse which looked almost exactly the same as another. An even better match.
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P. W
A Doppelganger.
willow
Someone who looks awfully like someone else is a dead ringer for them
eg: I saw a bloke the other day who's a dead ringer for my boy friend
I've been told it means that something is very much the same as something else...
Example, when someone says you're a dead ringer for ur father or whatever... they mean that you're a lot like him. The term is usually used when referring to people, hardly ever used to compare objects.
petedavo
Supermin has the correct usage.
It has become common to use the "lookalike" meaning, but it is not quite correct because it is not acknowledging that there is "intent to deceive" in the original use of the term.
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