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

• God's gift to women

References

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