fairy godmother
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"Role modelling kindness is a great message to young people, that someone out there is like a fairy godmother looking after them," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025
A kind of deus ex machina, he pops into the novel at key points, offering incredible amounts of money like a possibly sinister fairy godmother in a Brothers Grimm tale.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024
If your greatest wish is for McDonald’s to offer a Luther Burger, your fairy godmother has good news.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2024
Reece, wearing a flowy mint green dress with butterflies in her hair, floats around the tables like a crafting fairy godmother with words of encouragement and reminders that this isn’t a competition.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023
“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.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
