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 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)