folk hero

In the process, she became something of a folk hero.

The local people consider him as a popular folk hero.

Make off with half a billion dollars and you'll probably end up as some kind of folk hero.

I considered it essential to show why he was a folk hero.

She said the composer had become something of a folk hero at the school.

She is considered to be a folk hero in the Philippines.

"No one here tonight has any desire to become a folk hero."

On the streets, however, they have become folk heroes to many citizens.

To the wider public, who knew little of his legal work, Hand was by then a folk hero.

The affair seemed only to add to his status as folk hero.

But his attacks against corruption made him a folk hero.

The Met fans began to treat him like a folk hero.

His stand has made him a folk hero among the 60,000 Muslim residents.

They had already made him a folk hero, and his legend was about to grow.

He is regarded by many as a Canadian folk hero today.

Folk heroes are also the subject of literature and some films.

"Castro is a real folk hero, maybe the last one left," he said.

Since then, he has become something of a folk hero here, drawing large crowds around the country.

The story even catapulted one man into folk hero history.

The former President appeared to be enjoying his status as a kind of folk hero.

"We may never know whether those represent the coming of our folk hero or not.

But in 1967 he was not a folk hero.

He is one of the great American folk heroes.

To some people, the point was that he had accomplished all this as a folk hero to everyone with gray hair.

By that point he had become a folk hero.