Citations:Cinderfella

English citations of Cinderfella

Noun: "(informal, sometimes used attributively) a man or boy who shares qualities with the character Cinderella"

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• 1992, Nolan Ryan (Mickey Herskowitz), Kings of the Hill: An Irreverent Look at the Men on the Mound, HarperCollins (1992), →ISBN, page 52:

  Then, as a rookie relief pitcher in 1984, he was about one more good pounding away from being sent down. An injury to Jerry Reuss gave him a chance to start, and he pitched well. He was on his way, a Cinderfella story.

• 1999, Lynda S. Cooper, Unguarded Hearts, Kensington Publishing Corporation (1999), →ISBN, page 48:

  "Anyway, one of the scouts spotted him in a street pickup game and invited him to work out with his future college team, if you can believe that. The rest is history. Scholarship, stellar collegiate play. We were thrilled to draft him."

  "Wow. A real Cinderfella story."

• 2006, Esera Tuaolo, Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL, Sourcebooks (2006), →ISBN, page 179:

  Two weeks later, we headed to Italy. It was a fairy tale to go from being closeted and depressed to flying first class to a romantic place with my handsome new boyfriend. I felt like Cinderfella.

• 2007, Lisa Trahair, The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick, State University of New York Press, Albany (2007), →ISBN, page 59:

  Keaton's new wife takes him home to her father and brothers, who all mistreat him terribly. His would be the lot of an overworked "Cinderfella" had the father not found the misappropriated letter, opened it, read of an inheritance, and assumed his son-in-law to be the beneficiary.

• 2008, W. H. Shuttleworth, New Diamonds and Old Gems: A Poet's Buried Treasure, Xlibris (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  That was a true Cinderella, or should I say Cinderfella kind of story.

• 2010, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme, Forge (2010), →ISBN, page 357:

  "Right. A daytime talk show. No more me rushing out before midnight six nights out of seven like Cinderfella."

• 2011, Karsheem White-Holman, It Is What It Is: Daze in Da Life of Mr. Can't Get It Right, AuthorHouse (2011), →ISBN, page 203:

  All my life I was an underdog who was now finally living out my Cinderfella story.

• 2014, Buddy Blanche, In the Crossfire of the Klans, Lulu.com (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  On prom day, I drove to Natchez to pick up the convertible from Jerry who had cleaned and polished the car to look like new – I felt like Cinderfella.

• 2014, Christi Barth, Up to Me, Carina Press (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Technically, Gray's was a Cinderfella story. Local boy escapes poor town and his dad's sick, twisted legacy of shame to graduate college with honors and land a great job.

• 2014, S. N. Weddle, It Starts With a Kiss, Mereo Books (2014), Mereo Books (2014), →ISBN, page 92:

  Of course I felt dreadful about using him, but still I somehow explained to Marty as we stood on the noisy sidewalk that I needed him to pose as my date for the night, and then like Cinderfella he would leave at midnight and go home like nothing had ever happened, although I suspected he had other plans.