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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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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The white-haired boy evidently approved of her, now that he saw her close to.

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

"I'll be over to see you, sir," promised the white-haired boy.

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

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