Meaning of Mickey Mantle | Babel Free

Definitions

A popular hero and champion in a field.

Examples

“Meggi O'Day, the Mickey Mantle of the poultry world, has added another championship to her list of titles. The little Leghorn hen laid another egg....”

“It isn't easy to explain why Danny Blancheflower, the Mickey Mantle of English soccer 15 years ago, says, "Your country is a great frontier town and you have great big attitudes toward things”

“This does not mean that the 1940 Buick was the Mickey Mantle of automobiles, but it was an all-star”

“"The engineers that were put to work on this are ... the Willie Mayses and the Mickey Mantles of the engineering profession. They are devoted, intelligent, honest engineers."”

“"Damn Yankees" isn't the Mickey Mantle of musical comedies”

“Says James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management: "They are the Mickey Mantles of the investing world." Harvard Management has achieved this with a formula that bears little resemblance to that of the average”

“Nearly all the answers were entertainers or athletes, the Mickey Mantles of your generation - until Sept. 11, 2001”

“... the Mickey Mantle of soups, then avgolemono, if you'll humor me, is the Eddie Murray of soups”

“And that combination of Hair and efficiency really helped him [Johnny Unitas] become one of football's first television stars, kind of the Mickey Mantle of professional football.”

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