the answer to a maiden's prayer

English

Alternative forms

  • an answer to a maiden's prayer

Etymology

From the June Valli song "The Answer to a Maiden's Prayer" (1959)

Noun

the answer to a maiden's prayer

  1. An attractive man, considered as an eligible bachelor.
    • 25 September 1969, Sir Henry Bolte, quoted in Peter Blazey, Bolte: A Political Biography (1972):
      Bolte may not be the answer to a maiden's prayer. But who else is there?

See also

References

  • "Maiden's prayer, Answer to a", Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable, 2nd ed. (2009)
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