Idiom
answer to someone's prayers
Meaning
Exactly what someone has been wishing or asking for.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This new job is the answer to my prayers.”
“After searching for months, finding a reliable babysitter was truly the answer to our prayers.”
“The unexpected arrival of the rain after such a long, devastating drought was the answer to the farmers' prayers.”
Examples
simple
“This new job is the answer to my prayers.”
contextual
“After searching for months, finding a reliable babysitter was truly the answer to our prayers.”
complex
“The unexpected arrival of the rain after such a long, devastating drought was the answer to the farmers' prayers.”
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