white-haired boy

noun

1. a favourite; darling

Example Sentences

As soon as “The Sun Also Rises” came out, Ernest Hemingway was the white-haired boy.

From The New Yorker

He turned to the fat, pale, almost white-haired boy still wallowing in bed.

From Literature

The issue of the corrupt guard and what he does to the character called the white-haired boy, that happens and that is the truth.

From Reuters

I was never a white-haired boy exactly, but I had ideas once of doing something...

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg