Living with a lightning rod for trouble has its advantages.
Balzac said of him that he " invented the lightning-rod, the hoax (` le canard ') and the republic."
He overcame the difficulty by erecting a vertical earthed receiving antenna like a lightning rod and attached a lateral extension to it at a yard or two above the earthed end.
Desiring freedom, his case instead became the lightning rod for sectional bitterness and hostility that was only resolved by war. ' GoCityKids.
And then mosey right down the lightning-rod and come along.