central casting

noun

Movies.

an agency, studio department, etc., responsible for hiring actors, especially bit players or extras.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of central casting¹

First recorded in 1925–30

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Unfortunately, it does appear that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not living up to what the president and the entire Republican Party apparently believed was his vast potential based upon his "central casting" good looks and white supremacist tattoos.

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He is, after all, a person who commonly hires people because they are "out of central casting."

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Sen. Mitt Romney, a choice straight out of central casting for the sort of blue-blood establishment Republican that once defined the party, admitted that his time was done in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.

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She's right out of Central Casting.

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And anyway, Trump is still looking for that perfect man out of Central Casting who can simultaneously keep the markets calm while helping Trump implement his monumentally idiotic tariff scheme, a job for a magician rather than a financial expert.

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