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poster boy
noun
- a person who appears on a poster
- 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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