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fair haired boy

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fair-haired

[fair-haird]
–adjective
1. having light-colored hair.
2. fair-haired boy, Informal. a person, esp. 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.

Origin:
1620–30; fair 1 + hair + -ed 3
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fair-haired boy

  1. n.
    a promising young man; a young man who receives favoritism. : Ted is the boss's fair-haired boy now, but he'll be just like the rest of us in a month.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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