from central casting

from central casting

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Prepositional phrase

from central casting

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of out of central casting.
    • 2002, Fay Vincent, The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 70:
      He was not the pompous university president from central casting, always pontificating; he was more like a charming professor who walked around his campus wearing the navy blue cap of his beloved Boston Red Sox and who just happened to be university president.
    • 2009, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure‎[1], Crown Publishers, →ISBN:
      Luckily for Giacomo, he had Marzia, an Italian grandmother straight from central casting.
    • 2014 April 1, Roger Cohen, “The case for Scotland”, in International New York Times, page 9:
      The fact that David Cameron, the conservative prime minister, is a plummy-voiced, Eton-educated, upper-class Brit from central casting has played into [Alex] Salmond's hands.
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