white-haired boy

White-headed boy or white-haired boy; a favourite, a person in favour, whether man or boy:—'Oh you're the white-headed boy now.'

I guess I know what that white-haired boy tried to tell us, gasped Amy, from the stern.

With her other hand she beckoned the white-haired boy to sit down beside her.

It could not be the effect of the dye, but he certainly was no longer "the white-haired boy."

I have said that a little white-haired boy used to carry my clubs at Westward Ho!