knight in shining armor
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Kiffin is, and always will be, a total blight on USC football, so why make him out to be this knight in shining armor?
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2023
“I thought I was being her knight in shining armor coming to her rescue,” he said.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2021
Her knight in shining armor with a wrench was plumber Troy Watts, one of the most popular faces in the pipe-burst, water-drenched, ceiling-collapsed metropolis of Houston.
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2021
Forget the handsome knight in shining armor protecting the weak of chivalric myth.
From Salon • Jun. 25, 2019
Mom smirks at him with the confidence of a lady who long ago figured out how to do things without a knight in shining armor to save her.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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