Meaning of from central casting | Babel Free

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Synonym of out of central casting.

idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

“Luckily for Giacomo, he had Marzia, an Italian grandmother straight from central casting.”

“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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