lightning conductor

“Dominic is a lightning conductor” who will try to move fast and break things, he said, adding: “Johnson is a swashbuckler, and so is Dominic.”

Unless I got impaled on a tomato cane, like the priest in The Omen who gets spiked by a falling lightning conductor.

A culture ministry statement said the citadel’s lightning conductor, which is set apart from the 2,500-year-old marble buildings, was hit.

On internet chatrooms and in online debates, he is a ubiquitous reference point, a lightning conductor in many contemporary social and intellectual disagreements.

As such, Stone acts as a lightning conductor, channeling the legal peril posed by Mueller deep into the heart of Trump’s inner circle.