fairy godmother

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!

The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.

"Well, now, we can play I'm a good sprite out of the box, or, what is better, a fairy godmother come down the chimney, and you are Cinderella, and must say what you want," said Rose, trying to put the question delicately.

It's like having a fairy godmother who asks you your wish and then gives it to you!

"Lucy is like a fairy godmother; she has turned me from a drudge into a princess in no time.

We shall know what an immense deduction must be made from all the influences and experiences that have formed us--no parents, no child-brother or sister, no individuality of home, no Glass Slipper, or Fairy Godmother. And that's the way we came by Tattycoram.'

I like the twist of having a rather evil Fairy Godmother (Jennifer Saunders).

Enter fairy godmother Larissa Saveliev, artistic director of the YAGP competitions.

The Grand Pavilion in Porthcawl has just announced that Big Brother contestant Alison, an early evictee from this year's contest, is to play the Fairy Godmother in its pantomime Cinderella.