Meanings
- idiomaticSynonym of out of central casting.
Luckily for Giacomo, he had Marzia, an Italian grandmother straight from central casting.
2009, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure, Crown Publishers, →ISBN2 more examples
He was not the pompous university president from central casting, always pontificating; he was more like a charming professor who walked around his campus wearing the navy blue cap of his beloved Boston Red Sox and who just happened to be university president.
2002, Fay Vincent, The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 70The fact that David Cameron, the conservative prime minister, is a plummy-voiced, Eton-educated, upper-class Brit from central casting has played into [Alex] Salmond's hands.
2014 April 1, Roger Cohen, “The case for Scotland”, in International New York Times, page 9Synonyms: out of central casting
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseSynonym of out of central casting.
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from central casting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/from%20central%20casting
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