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answer to prayers

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the answer to someone's prayers
someone or something that someone has needed very much for a long time. A new supermarket delivery service was the answer to my prayers.
See also: answer, prayer


the answer to your prayers
exactly what is needed or wanted. These new artificial hearts are amazing, but are they the answer to our prayers?
Usage notes: sometimes used in the form the answer to something's prayers: Each new technology has been introduced as the answer to education's prayers.
See also: answer, prayer

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She says the movie is an answer to prayers from both her mother and a minister cousin who had been asking that God send her a movie that's ``spiritual and inspiring.
 
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