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poster child

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0Someone who is very typical of whatever is being talked about; you can hold up this person as the best example. 02br 02br 00If you are raising money for research for a specific disease, and you find a cute child who suffers from this disease, you put her picture on the poster - she is the "poster child" for this disease, so now, hopefully, people will give money to research. " 0-

  • 0Someone who is very typical of whatever is being talked about; you can hold up this person as the best example.
  • 02br 02br 00If you are raising money for research for a specific disease, and you find a cute child who suffers from this disease, you put her picture on the poster - she is the "poster child" for this disease, so now, hopefully, people will give money to research.
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0Someone who is very typical of whatever is being talked about; you can hold up this person as the best example. You could put this person on a poster "advertising" whatever it is.02br
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00If you are raising money for research for a specific disease, and you find a cute child who suffers from this disease, you put her picture on the poster - she is the "poster child" for t
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I believe it started in the 1950's when door-to-door campaigns for financial donations began. My hunch is that the first was for polio [Mothers' March of Dimes], as it could show an otherwise perfectly normal child walking with the aid of crutches.

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