• ask for someone's hand

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ask for someone'shandinmarriage (third-person singular simple presentasks for someone's hand in marriage,present participleasking for someone's hand in marriage,simple past and past participleasked for someone's hand in marriage)

1. (dated) Toproposemarriage

• propose

• “someone s hand in marriage” (US) / “someone s hand in marriage” (UK) inMacmillan English Dictionary.
• “somebody s hand in marriage” inLongman Dictionary of Contemporary English,Longman.
• “ask for somebody's hand” inIdioms and phrases,TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026.

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