drawing card: translation
a drawing card
Fig. an attraction that helps bring patrons to a place of entertainment. •
The comedian was a real drawing card at the night club.
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{n.} The most important figure in a multi-person event; the top entertainer during a show; the best professor or researcher at a university, etc. * /During the concert series Barbra Streisand was the biggest drawing card./ * /The biggest drawing card at many a university is the resident Nobel Laureate./