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Boy wonder   /bɔɪ wˈəndər/   Listen
Boy wonder

noun
1.
An extremely talented young male person.





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"Boy wonder" Quotes from Famous Books



... to do his best. Indeed, after being advertised and announced as a boy wonder, he felt that he could ...
— The Young Musician - or, Fighting His Way • Horatio Alger
... reputation he'd gotten. It had been bad enough in the old days—the pre-1971 days when Malone had thought he was just lucky. Burris had called him a Boy Wonder then, when he'd cracked three difficult cases in a row. Being just lucky had made it a little tough to live with the Boy Wonder label—after all, Malone thought, it wasn't actually ...
— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett
... "Ladeez'n gentlemen, the boy wonder! Here's to him! The bantam-weight champeen of Connecticut. The Sixty-First Street Cyclone! The kid they ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse


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