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a. (label en idiomatic) Conforming to the stereotypical image of a particular type of person or group.
Usage examples of "from central casting".
When Staff Sergeant Adairwho was short, squat, starting to bald, and did not look as if he had been sent over from Central Casting to play a Marine sergeantsaw Major Macklin, he popped to attention and bellowed, Attention on deck!
The little old guy who sat on it, taking his ease in the late afternoon sunshine, was straight from central casting.
Turn on the TV, listen to radio, you should hear how corny the pizza commercials, the beer ads with the Cherman accents from Central Casting, the Martians eating potato powder and sounding like they came from the Moon.
They were starting off the broadcast with a round-table discussion among the four metapundits whom Ogle had hand-picked from Central Casting.
A well-known and respected Performer's Agent who just happened to be Polish, asked for assistance from Central Casting to find a missing PA, Brace 'Red' Vaden who was reportedly employed but who had obviously not appeared with any working company.
His stylish tan and his gray temples and sideburns made him look like something sent over from central casting.
A robust, big-bellied man, a plainclothes copper from central casting, Milacki always had a good time.
He was not the guy I'd have ordered up from central casting to be the Man for All Seasons.
In the next room a pudgy man in a spotless white smock-like a kindly doctor sent from Central Casting-carefully adjusted the connections on the car battery attached to an older man's genitals.
Juan E and his Django guy sit at one side of the table, and some boss nigger from Central Casting sits at the other side with a guy who looks like an NFL linebacker turned thug.
But if Hollywood was going to make a movie about a crusty old patrician senator with a penchant for French wine and a good pipe after dinner, Tucker Paine was direct from central casting.