high-flyer

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In 1930 he was the youngest member of the Reichstag and was considered by all to be a high-flyer. BNC

Even earlier, as a diplomat in Beijing and at the United Nations in New York in the 1950s, then as a high-flyer at the elbow of two heads of the Foreign Office, he was marked for big things. BNC

George is still a high flyer - as he showed by graduating at Dundee Uni at age of 76. Google

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