Pygmalion1
/pɪɡˈmeɪlɪən
/Greek Mythology
A king of Cyprus who fashioned an ivory statue of a beautiful woman and loved it so deeply that in answer to his prayer Aphrodite gave it life. The woman (at some point named Galatea) bore him a daughter, Paphos.
Rhymes
Pygmalion2
/pɪɡˈmeɪlɪən/A legendary king of Tyre, brother of Elissa (Dido), whose husband he killed in the hope of obtaining his fortune.
- do someone (or oneself) a mischief
- do someone out of
- do someone over
- do someone proud
- do someone's head in
- do someone/thing a power of good
- do someone/thing down
- do someone/thing justice
- do someone to death
- do someone up
- do someone wrong
- do something for one's country (or England etc.)
- do something in
- do something (or nothing) for
- do something out
- do something over
- do something to death
- do something until (or till) one is blue in the face
- do something up
- Dos Passos, John
- doss
- dossal
- dosser
- dosseret
- dosshouse