lightning rod
避雷针,闪电棒,避暑针,雷击棒
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- : a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- : a person or thing that attracts and absorbs powerful and especially negative or hostile feelings, opinions, etc., thereby diverting such feelings from other targets: The unpopular supervisor served as a lightning rod for the criticism that should have been aimed at management.
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Controversy followed Reed, often a golf lightning rod nicknamed “Captain America,” after Team USA lost to Europe at Le Golf National in France.
Ricardo Salles, the Brazilian environment minister who became a lightning rod for anger over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, resigned Wednesday after allegations he obstructed a federal investigation into illegal logging.
The board refused to accept its role as the company’s lightning rod by kicking the decision back to Facebook.
The bill has become a lightning rod for Republican opposition, spurring claims that it is a partisan attempt to rewrite federal election laws in Democrats’ favor.
I don't know why he's singled out, but every time he just ends up being the lightning rod for my brothers' dirty jokes and my dad and uncle's drunken nicknames.
Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and Rod looks over.
And of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’
Rod Stewart and Diane Sawyer This is just highly entertaining.
Creator Rod Serling was compelled by the need “not to just entertain but to enlighten.”
The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.
Spite, however, of punishments and prohibitions the use of tobacco spread with the rapidity of lightning.