The perfect person to act like? (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
role model
'the perfect person to act like?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'the perfect person to act' is the wordplay.
'the perfect person' becomes 'model' (model is a kind of person. I am not sure about the 'perfect' bit.).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'act' becomes 'role' (role is a kind of act).
'model' put after 'role' is 'ROLE-MODEL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for role model that I've seen before include "exemplary type" , "One whose example should be followed" , "someone to look up to" , "One looked up to" , "someone worthy of imitation" .)