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fair-haired
[ fair-haird ]
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of fair-haired1
Idioms and Phrases
- fair-haired boy, Informal. a person, especially a young one, treated as a favorite or considered especially promising by a superior or the members of a group:
He's the fair-haired boy of the literary set.
Example Sentences
鈥淢y agent said, 鈥業t鈥檚 a shame that you鈥檙e not conservative, because if you were, there are many more opportunities for women that look like you,鈥 she says 鈥 i.e., white, fair-haired and conventionally attractive.
The same year she married a 鈥渇air-haired, blue-eyed boy with the cheekiest grin I鈥檇 ever seen鈥.
The 2000 summary document asks if Z3 was the 鈥渂londe offender鈥, a reference to an unidentified fair-haired lead attacker described by eyewitnesses to the murder.
The other was Lance Kenton, 20, lean and fair-haired, his posture as straight as a soldier鈥檚.
The BBC investigation into Matthew White revealed that independent witnesses said he admitted being present during the attack on Stephen, and that in 1993 White looked like the unidentified fair-haired lead attacker described by eyewitnesses.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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