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fair-haired boy

noun

  1. the usual US name for blue-eyed boy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

A favorite, a person who is given special treatment. For example, Today the attorney general is the governor's fair-haired boy . This term alludes to the preference of blond (“fair”) hair over dark hair. [Late 1800s]
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Example Sentences

He was trying to make himself appear the fair-haired boy in front of Sergeant McGinty.

Napoleon holds by the hand a fair-haired boy of three, the little King of Rome.

Coming down the path towards them, they saw a fair-haired boy.

She sat by the couch of a fair-haired boy, who was that day mortally wounded.

A fair-haired boy came spurring up the slope, his face all aglow with the speed of his running.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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