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Johnny-come-lately
[jon-ee-kuhm-leyt-lee]
noun
plural
Johnny-come-latelies, Johnnies-come-latelya late arrival or participant; newcomer.
the Johnny-come-latelies producing space-war films after the trend had ended.
Johnny-come-lately
noun
a brash newcomer, novice, or recruit
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Johnny-come-lately1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
A bunch of Johnny-come-lately types.
Never mind that, as Texas Monthly reported, the spiders are thought to have occupied their habitat since “before the last ice age,” which one might think had given them superior rights to the property than those johnny-come-lately Yearwoods.
He views Palin as a “Johnny-come-lately,” he said, someone who abandoned Alaska politics for the better part of a decade, only to make an opportunistic return when Young’s death left the congressional seat open.
“King salmon is a Johnny-come-lately that came into this race only after king crab left—died.”
So too, in their own way, may his Republican primary rivals in Ohio, who have been professing their fidelity to Trumpism, only to see their leader confer his blessing on a Johnny-come-lately.
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