Timeline for Idiom: To cast a role
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| Jul 28, 2018 at 2:19 | answer | added | lbf | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 0:25 | answer | added | user22542 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 15:40 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | Your question is unclear since the example you give doesn't seem to match what you describe elsewhere. Are you talking about somebody who is interfering and overbearing (as the initial part of the question suggests), or are you talking about making somebody out to be something (as your example suggests)? If the latter, is it a false assignment or does its validity not matter? | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1022813952676425728 | ||
| Jul 27, 2018 at 11:34 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I would interpret "cast a role" to be referring to the activity in a theater where the director picks a particular actor for a particular role. This may also include the director (or play author) instructing the actor on the "quirks" of behavior expected in that role. | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 11:13 | history | edited | blackened | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2018 at 11:03 | answer | added | VTH | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 10:47 | comment | added | TripeHound | I can imagine "to cast a role" (or a close variant) being understandable (and not unnatural) in certain contexts... I think we'd have to see an (English) example of a sentence in which you wanted to use this idiom... | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 9:51 | history | asked | blackened | CC BY-SA 4.0 |