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from central casting

from central casting prepositional phrase: synonym of out of central casting.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of out of central casting.
    • He was not the pompous university president from central casting, always pontificating; he was more like a charming professor who walked around his campus wearing the navy blue cap of his beloved Boston Red Sox and who just happened to be university president.2002, Fay Vincent, The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 70
    • Luckily for Giacomo, he had Marzia, an Italian grandmother straight from central casting.2009, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure, Crown Publishers, →ISBN

Synonyms of from central casting

Questions about from central casting

What does from central casting mean?
From central casting means synonym of out of central casting.
What part of speech is from central casting?
From central casting is a prepositional phrase.

Words near from central casting in the dictionary

  1. from an early age
  2. from away
  3. from beginning to end
  4. from behind
  5. from can see to can't see
  6. from central casting
  7. from cover to cover
  8. from cradle to grave
  9. from day to day
  10. from father to son
  11. from first to last

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