Eating too much every once in a while is normal. So is eating for emotional reasons. âFrom the moment weâre born, weâre nurtured with food, rewarded with food, and so emotional connections to food are normal,â says Michelle May, MD, author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat.
1. a person or thing that rings a bell. 2. Also called: dead ringer a person or thing that is almost identical to another. 3. a stolen vehicle the identity of which has been changed by the use of the licence plate, serial number, etc, of another, usually disused, vehicle. 4.
Dead, in the sense of lifeless, is so commonly used that we tend to ignore its other meanings. The meaning that's relevant here is exact or precise. This is demonstrated in many phrases; 'dead shot', 'dead centre', 'dead heat', etc. 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.