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poster boy

noun

  1. a person who appears on a poster
  2. a person who typifies or represents a particular characteristic, cause, opinion, etc

    a poster girl for late motherhood



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It just came at a time when people were ready to say, “Yeah, this movie can be our poster boy.”

They are trying to make him the poster boy for their anti-abortion, anti-same sex [marriage] agenda.

Manning is too easy to turn into a poster boy, an easy icon, a cause.

Evidently, Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz in short order made himself into a poster boy for fettered capitalism.

But in Wisconsin, native son and right-wing poster-boy Paul Ryan may have made the difference.

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