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Definition of central casting in English: central castingnoun North American trademark An agency or department that supplies actors for minor, usually stereotypical or generic film roles. Lynch is a mild, methodical guy, a bureaucrat from central casting a couple of hammy doctors straight from central casting Example sentencesExamples - She seemed to have been sent from central casting.
- They weren't - I didn't get them from central casting, no matter what you've read.
- It hurts that his character is a rich suburban dad from central casting, written as flat as possible in order to maximize the contrast with his explosive moment of violence.
- I had no desire to be someone out of central casting for the current hit movie The Forty Year Old Virgin.
- The baddies are right out of central casting, eccentric to the hilt.
Origin 1920s: from the name of the US organization Central Casting Corporation. Definition of central casting in US English: central castingnoun North American trademark An agency or department that supplies actors for minor, usually stereotypical or generic film roles. Lynch is a mild, methodical guy, a bureaucrat from central casting a couple of hammy doctors straight from central casting Example sentencesExamples - She seemed to have been sent from central casting.
- It hurts that his character is a rich suburban dad from central casting, written as flat as possible in order to maximize the contrast with his explosive moment of violence.
- The baddies are right out of central casting, eccentric to the hilt.
- They weren't - I didn't get them from central casting, no matter what you've read.
- I had no desire to be someone out of central casting for the current hit movie The Forty Year Old Virgin.
Origin 1920s: from the name of the US organization Central Casting Corporation. |