white-haired boy
Britishnoun
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As soon as “The Sun Also Rises” came out, Ernest Hemingway was the white-haired boy.
From The New Yorker
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.
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She and the white-haired boy had been the very best of friends.
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