late bloomer
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- noun
- /leɪt ˈbluːmər/
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persona de maduración tardía
- As a child, I was considered a late bloomer because I started reading much later than my peers.
Maybe people been unamazed by it forever, but I'm a late bloomer, you know, it just took me a long time to get out of my shell in some ways.
- Maybe people been unamazed by it forever, but I'm a late bloomer, you know, it just took me a long time to get out of my shell in some ways.
- And you know, I was AI was a late bloomer.
- Now I was a late bloomer.
Examples
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I was a late bloomer, made lots of mistakes, and floundered for a while.
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In conclusion, many of our "best and brightest" lawyers are late bloomers.
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And I was a late bloomer, so I was also quite small at that time.
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I guess we're both late bloomers.
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But we're a family of late bloomers.
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I know, I was a late bloomer myself.
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I am a late bloomer, just starting to take my desire for business success seriously.
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Well, late bloomers always turn out best anyhow.
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I'm a late bloomer.
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Skye, for her part, was tall, a late bloomer with long, gangly legs and arms.
Fiction book (2002)
Antonyms
How Late
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Surface Forms
Morphology
late + bloomer
The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'late' (occurring later) plus 'bloomer' (one who blooms — agentive use of 'bloom' meaning to develop or flourish). The metaphor from flowering to maturing is regular and predictable (‑er agentive morphology), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer 'a person who develops or shows talent later than usual.'
Etymology
The noun late bloomer comes from gardens. A bloomer is a plant that makes flowers, and a late bloomer shows its flowers after the others. So, a late bloomer is someone who 'develops skills or shows talents later' than most people.