Charming, Prince

Charming, Prince
   An allusion to the tale of Cinderella, by the French writer Charles Perrault. Prince Charming in that tale makes Cinderella’s dreams come true, changing her from a household drudge into a princess. One might therefore say that every young woman hopes that a Prince Charming will one day come into her life. When the phrase is used vocatively in Like Any Other Man, by Patrick Boyle, it is a sarcastic comment by one man to another, whom he suspects of luring his lover away from him. ‘“Up off your seat, Prince Charming,’ he said. “You’re on your way.”’

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