WHITE KNIGHT

PRONUNCIATION: (HWYT nyt)

MEANING: n noun:
1. One who comes to the rescue of another.
2. A well-meaning but ineffective helper.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hwit (white) + cniht (boy, servant). Earliest documented use: 1628; for sense 2: 1957.
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WRITE KNIGHT - the one who kept the minutes of the Round Table meetings

SHITE KNIGHT - the Black Knight (review Monte Python if you need to!)

WHAT? E. KNIGHT? - You mean Michelle Brandon didn't write all those books, it was USA Today journalist Eliza Knight?