thinking man's crumpet

Coined 1960s by Frank Muir to describe Joan Bakewell, following the latter’s appearances in high-brow television discussion programmes such as BBC2's Late Night Line-Up.^[1]

From crumpet (“sexually desirable woman (UK slang)”).

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thinking man's crumpet (plural thinking man's crumpets)

1. (British, slang) An intelligent and good-looking woman, particularly one who has a high profile in the broadcast media.

   Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the ".

Frequently the thinking man’s crumpet.

• See Thesaurus:beautiful woman

• crumpet, bit of crumpet, piece of crumpet