make an honest woman

present singular third person makes an honest woman · participle present making an honest woman · participle past made an honest woman · past made an honest woman

1. idiomaticinformalusuallyTo marry (a woman), especially if there is an existing sexual relationship.

   I thought about just asking Rosalyn to move in with me, but I decided it was time to make an honest woman out of her.

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   the mother, Mr Jones, Mr Nightingale, and his love, stept into a hackney-coach, which conveyed them to Doctors' Commons; where Miss Nancy was, in vulgar language, soon made an honest woman, and the poor mother became […] one of the happiest of all human beings.

   1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 567