The phrase
"old maid" refers to a woman who is unmarried and considered too old to get married.
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Sentences with «old maid»
- Tony Blair has criticised Blue Labour in stinging terms, warning that echoing the Baldwin and Major idyll of old maids cycling to communion would ruin Labour's chances. (telegraph.co.uk)
- «Those anonymous crowds, gentlemen with walking sticks, old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the fog and the mist. (politics.co.uk)
- Lucia is a repressed old maid who flinches from even the thought of sex, but even so, weird Sheriff Tippett (Lyle Lovett) takes a fancy to her. (rottentomatoes.com)
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