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white-haired boy

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noun

  1. a favourite; darling

"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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Prognosticators searching among the unknown contributors for tomorrow's literary white-haired boy will find New Directions' radar scope pretty murky.

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It is a heavy cross for even so magnificent a crusader as Indiana's white-haired boy to bear.

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Geoffrey William Lloyd, 38, Stanley Baldwin's onetime white-haired boy, was a Secretary for Mines who knew nothing about mines.

From Time Magazine Archive

With her other hand she beckoned the white-haired boy to sit down beside her.

From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

“Of course not, Neale,” cried Agnes, but secretly condemned because there had been a time 245 when, for a few hours, she herself had almost doubted the honesty of the white-haired boy.

From The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to by Hill, Grace Brooks

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