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knight in shining armor

Idioms  

  1. A rescuer or defender, as in What this political party needs is a knight in shining armor to change its tarnished image. This metaphoric expression alludes to a medieval knight. [Mid-1900s]

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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

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

The franchise needed a knight in shining armor to save it.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2018

And with that, my eight-year-old knight in shining armor rode off.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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