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• Boy with Thorn — Boy with Thorn, also called Fedele (Fedelino) or Spinario, is a Greco Roman Hellenistic Bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot, now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome ( illustration, right ). A Roman marble of… …   Wikipedia

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• fair-haired boy — {n.}, {informal} A person that gets special favors; favorite; pet. * /If he wins the election by a large majority, he will become his party s fair haired boy./ * /The local boy playing first base could do no wrong; he was the fair haired boy of… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• fair-haired boy — {n.}, {informal} A person that gets special favors; favorite; pet. * /If he wins the election by a large majority, he will become his party s fair haired boy./ * /The local boy playing first base could do no wrong; he was the fair haired boy of… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• whipping boy — {n. phr.} The person who gets punished for someone else s mistake. * / I used to be the whipping boy during my early days at the company, he musingly remembered./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• whipping boy — {n. phr.} The person who gets punished for someone else s mistake. * / I used to be the whipping boy during my early days at the company, he musingly remembered./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• boykottieren — boy|kot|tie|ren [bɔy̮kɔ ti:rən] <tr.; hat: mit einem Boykott belegen: den Handel mit einem Land boykottieren; ein Land, einen Staat boykottieren; einen Plan, eine Arbeit boykottieren; einen Kollegen, ein Geschäft boykottieren. Syn.: ↑ ächten,… …   Universal-Lexikon