lightning conductor
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On internet chatrooms and in online debates, he is a ubiquitous reference point, a lightning conductor in many contemporary social and intellectual disagreements.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2019
You hear of microphones being hit by lightning; and the scaffolding around the stage is basically a lightning conductor.
From BBC • May 22, 2018
Kennedy’s firsthand experience of visceral hunger in America ran as a lightning conductor through his run for the White House.
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018
Wayne Rooney will always be a lightning conductor for debate and conjecture in an England context.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2014
The Archdeacon is the lightning conductor; where he is, the leaven of naughtiness passes to the ground, and society is not shocked.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert
