from central casting

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Synonym ofout of central casting.2002, Fay Vincent,The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine, Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,page70:He was not the pompous university presidentfrom 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 straightfrom central casting.2014April 1, Roger Cohen, “The case for Scotland”, inInternational New York Times, page 9:The fact that David Cameron, the conservative prime minister, is a plummy-voiced, Eton-educated, upper-class Britfrom central castinghas played into [Alex] Salmond's hands.

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