Peter Pan

Describes a man who stays boyish and youthful, sometimes immature, dates from c. 1914 and derives from the J.M.Barrie play Peter Pan (1904) where the central character, Peter Pan, is a boy who never grows up. George Bernard Shaw in 1914 described Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany as Peter Pan with obvious derogatory connotations. Ken Rosewall, the Australian tennis player who kept winning major tournaments when he was well into his forties was often referred to as The Peter Pan of Tennis similarly, Sir Cliff Richard is still referred to as The Peter Pan of Pop Music.