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fairy godmother |
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a fairy godmother someone who helps you solve your problems, usually by giving you money. A local company acted as fairy godmother to the theatre by giving a £1 million donation. See also: fairy fairy godmother someone who helps you solve your problems. These children, sent to school without lunch or lunch money and sometimes without shoes, were in need of a fairy godmother. If a fairy godmother offered most editors a single wish, it would probably be the ability to predict sales. Etymology: based on a character in a fairy tale (= traditional story) who uses magic to help people See also: fairy |
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I am sure that had the fairy godmother appeared just then and touched Irene with her wand, David would have been interested rather than astonished. But, you see, you ARE so like the fairy godmother in the bright little books "This is a gay figure, Pip," said she, making her crutch stick play round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were bestowing the finishing gift. |
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