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maiden aunt
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun maiden aunt has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
maiden aunt, n.
Literally, an aunt who has never been married. Figuratively, it is a term used as the prototype of a person who is broadly naive and not wise in worldly ways; as, he knows as much about programming as my maiden aunt. [PJC]
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