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n. (context idiomatic English) A life in which one is always lucky and safe from danger.
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Charmed Life is the fourth studio album by English rock vocalist Billy Idol, released in 1990 through Chrysalis Records.
" Cradle of Love" was featured on the soundtrack of The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. The song was famous for its video, which won the 1990 MTV Video Music Award for "Best video from a film". The video, directed by David Fincher, featured Betsy Lynn George as a teenager who knocks at her neighbour's door and asks to play a tape, before stripping to the music.
The album's second single is a cover version of " L.A. Woman" by The Doors. Its video was also directed by Fincher.
Charmed Life has been certified platinum by the RIAA and Silver by BPI.
Charmed Life is a children's fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1977. It was the first Chrestomanci book and it remains a recommended introduction to the series. Greenwillow Books published a U.S. edition within the calendar year.
It features Eric "Cat" Chant and his older sister Gwendolen, a witch. The Chant parents have some magic but they drown in a boating accident in the first pages, leaving a boy who relies on a girl who needs training.
The Chrestomanci books are collectively named after a powerful enchanter and British government official in a world parallel to ours, who supervises the use of magic —or the Chrestomanci, an office that requires a powerful enchanter and is responsible for supervising. Charmed Life is set in our time, during the tenure of Christopher Chant, who is Chrestomanci in five of the seven books and is often called Chrestomanci as a personal name.
Charmed Life may refer to:
- Charmed Life (novel), a 1977 novel by Diana Wynne Jones
- Charmed Life (Billy Idol album), 1990
- Charmed Life (Half Japanese album), 1988
- "Charmed Life", a song by Mick Jagger
Usage examples of "charmed life".
He hid because every now and then one of the Krikkit robots would walk along it, and although he had so far led some kind of charmed life at their hands, it had nevertheless been an extremely painful one, and he had no desire to stretch what he was only half-inclined to call his good fortune.
This Grendel bore a charmed life against all weapons forged by man.
She had often heard his knights speak of his charmed life, of how he could take the worst of wounds and not lose blood enough to kill.
It seemed to bear a charmed life in its languid blood and imperceptible motions.
The shooter seemed unfazed by the whine of the bouncing slug, as if he led such a charmed life that his safety was a foregone conclusion.