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JOHNNY-COME -LATELY

JOHNNY-COME -LATELY
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like a recently arrived person or thing, especially as compared with the more seasoned. We find somebody, a big organization, rather Johnny-come-lately in the religious field - new, brassy new, it's only a couple of thousand years old-the Roman rel~gious government which succeeded the regime of Caligula. -Rugged Individualism (30 Aug. 55)