CENTRAL CASTING


Meaning of CENTRAL CASTING in English

ˌcentral ˈcasting BrE AmE noun [uncountable]

1 . an organization that supplies actors for small roles in films, plays etc

2 . if you say that someone has come from central casting, you mean that they look like the perfect example of a particular type of person, as if an actor is playing the part:

Wearing black shoes and a pinstripe suit, he looked like central casting’s idea of the perfect civil servant.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.