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Chris -- 2018-04-11
As seen in The Sun readers’ comments – where else? The England football team is a bunch of over-paid pre Madonnas!
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Perhaps, after they’ve received all the worship due themselves, they will be full-fledged Madonnas!
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Welcome to the Forum, garrett9.
Pre-Madonna is in the Database.
prima donna >> pre-madonna
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/27/pre-madonna/
It’s also been mentioned in the Forum, though searching for it can be tricky. (You need the hyphen.)
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1232
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Well, w/ Madonna currently living in England, I wonder if the “Madonna” referent has changed?
Instead of Joseph’s Mary, they’re referring to Guy’s Madge?
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I foundsomeone intentionally using “pre-Madonna” to mean something a little else.
From the beginning of the post, it sounds as though she/he knows it’s not “prima donna” but is making a play on that sound
This was an answer to someone querying, “didn’t you mean ‘prima donna’?”
http://letters.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2 … l?show=all
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Yeah a not so funny play on words
It’s a new category: pre-Madonna as defined by people who are clearly egomaniacs, and we all know it, but are somehow managing to hold it back long enough to get what they want.
Prime example: Madonna and Whitney Houston in the 1980s, Jennifer Lopez in the early 1990s, Bill Clinton during his first term, Ben Affleck when he could still act.
George Clooney’s on the verge of this. To me these are people who have somehow managed to fool just enough people into thinking they’re not totally egomaniacs, but rather just extremely self-involved, until they get on top and then reveal total diva/divo-like behavior proving they were, after all, complete egomaniacs.
This guy sounds like one of those to me. But, in the case of the letter writer, she’d probably do best to follow the advice of those who have actual experience dating a jerk. I just have to deal with guys like this at work and when I go out. I don’t have to live with them.—libertyson
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Of course, it’s not completely clear if Libertyson understands the metaphorical use of “prima donna,” but I’m guessing.
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