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Johnny-come-lately
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a Johnny-come-lately (old-fashioned)
someone who has only recently started a job or activity and has suddenly become very successful. She denies suggestions that she's a Johnny-come-lately, saying that she has worked for years to get her own show.

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The battle is already over, we lost, and thanks to Johnny-come-latelies like him, we are losing the Supreme Court.
Get Carter by Williamson, Neil / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
He acknowledged the appeal of Roethlisberger's small-town-kid-makes-good story, but had nothing but scorn for the Johnny-come-latelies.
BEN WAGON THE TOWN OF FINDLAY, OHIO, HELPED SET ROETHLISBERGER'S ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
De Becker haughtily denounces all these Johnny-come-latelies as 'frauds or wannabes,"' the suit quotes the book as saying.
Security firm to stars fights back against claims of greed. (Up Front) by Bronstad, Amanda / Los Angeles Business Journal
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