Dictionaries:
queen for a day:
1. Defined by Bruce Rodgers in The Queen's Vernacular (1972) as: ' Man who whoops it up on his red-letter day birthday , etc "Santa Claus is, at Christmas Eve, a queen for a day ."'2. To be treated like a queen (instead of a cook, mother and chief bottle-washer) for a day.
QUOTE: In Corrina, Corrina (1994) Mrs. Washington (Whoopie Goldberg) is listening to television:
-- A TV ad : ' Would YOU like to be queen for a day? '
-- Corrina: ' I knew a guy in my neighborhood who wanted to be queen for a day, and you know what happened to him, don't you? '
See Also: queen for a day, stool pigeon, T-room queen, tea room queen, tearoom queen, Toilet Tessie, washroom faggot
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