a French FAIRY TALE (= a children's story in which magical things happen) . Hop o'My Thumb is the youngest of seven children, and he protects his brothers and sisters after their parents leave them in the forest because they have no money. He steals some magic boots from an OGRE, and uses them to make money which he gives to his parents.
a PATRIOTIC song that praises the US. It has the same tune as the British song GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, and it begins: My country 'tis of thee,/Sweet land of liberty,/Of thee I sing.
(1964) a US MUSICAL (= a film that uses singing and dancing to tell a story) in which Audrey HEPBURN plays a poor young woman from London who is taught to speak and behave like an UPPER-CLASS lady by a bad-tempered PROFESSOR, played by Rex Harrison. It is based on the play PYGMALION by George Bernard SHAW .
a village in Vietnam where, in 1968, a group of US soldiers killed several hundred people, mostly old people, women, and children, during the Vietnam War. This event influenced many Americans to oppose the war.