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pop the question
[for a man] to ask a woman to marry him. (Could also be used by a woman asking a man.) She waited for years for him to pop the question. Finally she popped the question.
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pop the question  (informal)
to ask someone to marry you So we were having dinner in this Italian restaurant and that's when he popped the question. Do you think he's going to pop the question then, Kath?
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pop the question
1. to ask someone to marry you I remember he popped the question while we were eating ice cream.
2. to ask about something that is very important So then I pop the question, When do you expect this to happen?
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"I am sure he will to-night, dear," Amelia said, as she pressed Rebecca's hand; and Sedley, too, had communed with his soul, and said to himself, "'Gad, I'll pop the question at Vauxhall.
 
 
 
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