lightning rod

Second, Michelle served as a lightning rod in the sense of drawing attacks away from other reform groups.

On the top of the obelisk is a 100-ounce aluminum cap, which acts as a lightning rod.

Indeed Taubira, in particular, has been a lightning rod for opposition contempt.

The show delivered on all the spark a lightning rod host like Dunham should give off.

In 1968, Ted Nugent was a lightning rod, a personification of transformational freedom.

There he paused a moment for breath, and then climbed up the lightning-rod, hand over hand, and gained the roof.

Back along the wall he crawled, and, sliding down the lightning-rod, was once more on the roof of the old hotel.

Only the clumsy old lightning-rod shrieking in its rusty fixtures when the wind blows.

A friend of mine in a Southern city tells me of a red-headed woodpecker that drums upon a lightning-rod on his neighbor's house.

From this observation to the lightning rod was but a short step.