fairy gift
noun
A wonderful or valuable gift that arrives unexpectedly or in a seemingly magical way; a boon, a godsend; (also, with allusion to some traditional fairy tales) something which at first appears to be attractive or valuable but later vanishes or changes into something bad.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in John Fryer (d. 1733), traveller and writer.
- immaterialism
- immaterialist
- immateriality
- immaterialize
- immaterialized
- immaterially
- immateriate
- immatriculate
- immatriculation
- immature
- immatured
- immaturely
- immatureness
- immaturity
- immeasurability
- immeasurable
- immeasurably
- immediacy
- immediate
- immediate constituent
- immediately
- immediateness
- immedicable
- Immelmann
- Immelmann turn