e/Late bloomer

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has glosseng: A late bloomer is a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop. The term is used metaphorically to describe a child or adolescent who develops more slowly than others in their age group, but eventually catches up and in some cases overtakes their peers, or an adult whose talent or genius in a particular field only appears later in life than is normal - in some cases only in old age.
lexicalizationeng: late bloomer
instance of(noun) a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
metaphor
instance of(noun) a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
individual, mortal, someone, soul, person, somebody
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