lightning conductor BrE
lightning rod AmE , also: lightning protector

Being a lightning rod is not a new experience to him, however.

Taking a job as a lightning rod is never easy.

He had always been a lightning rod when things went wrong.

They'd remember her as more than a political lightning rod.

He was the lightning rod and could earth the power within her.

In 1998 a lightning rod was added to the top of the building.

"Lightning Rod" is often used as an example of this.

You know, my point is that somebody would be made a lightning rod.

"Part of my job is to be a lightning rod," the President said.

The school was the lightning rod for civil rights almost from the beginning.

The museum was a critical lightning rod from the very start.

"I guess I'm kind of a lightning rod in this whole thing."

The book made him a lightning rod for criticism from the left.

Not surprisingly, the issue has become a political lightning rod.

But he has evolved into something of a lightning rod.

Indeed, each candidate is a lightning rod to the other side.

We are perceived to be standing next to the lightning rod.

His name is still a lightning rod in American society."

And fast food has become a lightning rod for these fears.

A lightning rod stood another above the top of the tower.

Are you willing to be an international lightning rod for the cause of reform?

"He's a public figure in this town, and a lightning rod."

Davis seemed to be a lightning rod for bad fortune.

A lightning rod is attached at the tip, 185 feet above.

"Two aspects of the law have, I think, become real lightning rods."