Zelig
/ˈzɛlɪɡ
/noun North American
A person who is able to change their appearance, behaviour, or attitudes, so as to be comfortable in any situation: he has become a veritable Zelig of high technology, burrowing into every information industry nook...
- He felt he had to become a Zelig character, redefine himself to accommodate this new reality.
Origin
1980s: from the name of Leonard Zelig, central character in Woody Allen's film Zelig (1983).
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- do someone a favour
- do someone a good (or bad) turn
- do someone an injustice
- do someone a solid
- do someone credit (or do credit to someone)
- do someone dirt (also do dirt to)
- do someone fine
- do someone good
- do someone in
- do someone no favours
- do someone (or oneself) a mischief
- do someone out of
- do someone over
- do someone proud
- do someone's head in
- do someone/thing a power of good
- do someone/thing down
- do someone/thing justice
- do someone to death
- do someone up
- do someone wrong
- do something for one's country (or England etc.)