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beauty queen

idiom
Meaning

The female winner of a beauty contest.


Examples
SIMPLE

She won the pageant and became the local beauty queen.

CONTEXTUAL

After winning the national competition, the young woman was crowned the new beauty queen and began her year of charity work.

COMPLEX

The former beauty queen maintained her poise and elegance long after her reign had concluded, remaining a prominent figure in the public eye.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    age before beauty

    A phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones.

  2. 02

    baked Bean

    [Cockney slang]queen

  3. 03

    beauty sleep

    Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.

  4. 04

    bio queen

    A cis female performance artist who performs in female drag at drag shows, or acts like a drag queen.

  5. 05

    drama queen

    An overly or exaggeratedly dramatic person, especially a woman or a girl. Or a diva or a narcissist.

  6. 06

    faux queen

    A bio queen.

  7. 07

    hangar queen

    A grounded aircraft which is kept so that its parts can be used in other aircraft.

  8. 08

    ice queen

    A beautiful but heartless woman.

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