pumpkin coach
Squash-turned-vehicle enchantment
A pumpkin coach is a grand carriage transformed from a pumpkin, from the Cinderella fairy tale where a fairy godmother magically converts a pumpkin into an elegant coach.
The phrase evokes temporary glamour or transformation that will revert to humble origins: At midnight, her pumpkin coach turns back into a gourd.
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
- white horsesFoam-topped breaking waves
- CinderellaRags-to-riches heroine
- fairy godmotherMagical benefactor figure
- fairy taleMagical children's narrative
once upon a time · midnight · stroke of midnight · glass slipper · ball gown · magic · transformation · horses · ball · prince · enchantment · golden · ornate · wheels · driver · gourd · horse and carriage · spell
- Cinderella storyCinderella, glass slipper, fairy godmother, wicked stepmother, stepsisters
- pantomimedame, pantomime dame, pantomime horse, principal boy, ugly sisters
- transportationcar, bus, airplane, train, plane
- magical transformationshapeshifting, metamorphosis, polymorph, transfiguration, transmogrification