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Meanings of pied piper in English

Portuguese
o flautista de hamelin

The title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning.

o flautista de hamelin
Usage of pied piper in English
1
Just follow the pied piper of the town, he'll lead you there.
The Guardian
2
We hope her mission continues,Ali said, before resuming his role as pied piper.
Reuters
3
Like the pied piper, Helen smiled a little smile.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3
4
He looked like an educated gawk, a rural genius, a pied piper of motley followers.
Children of the Market Place
5
You will have to hire a pied piper and pipe all the babies into the fields.
The Happy Adventurers
6
The pied piper of Hamelin could learn a thing or two from President Michael D Higgins.
The Irish Times
7
Like the pied piper, I led my audience out and continued the show standing on a crate.
The Guardian
8
He and his music led us through the streets of San Francisco, like a psychedelic pied piper.
The Bride Wore Black Leather
9
But Sanders was no pied piper.
The Guardian
10
But liberal Democrats should watch carefully how like the pied piper he is prizing away a key young demographic.
Reuters
11
The earth called, the fields called, the river called-thatpied piper to whose music a man cannot stop his ears.
The Roadmender
12
You turn out a dozen popular ballads, and the coin'll follow your music as the rats did the pied piper's.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
13
Kim Kardashian is cited as a vocal fry pied piper, leading young American women downwards towards the dangerous depths of creaky-speak.
The Irish Times
14
I love the sun and the moon and I know it's all true about the little folk and the pied piper and-
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
15
The Brits even tried to claim him as one of their own, calling him a new pied piper for the so-called "Brit folk" movement.
The Irish Times
16
He was the Pied Piper in Hamelin, he was Pan in Hellas.
The ninth vibration and other stories
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