woman

See:
  • (not) half the person/man/woman (one) used to be
  • (one's) own man/woman/person
  • (the) man of the moment
  • (the) man/woman of the hour
  • (the) woman of the moment
  • a (person) of substance
  • a man after (one's) own heart
  • a man of few words
  • a man of the world
  • a man, woman, etc. after your own heart
  • a man/woman of few words
  • a man/woman of parts
  • a man/woman of the people
  • a man/woman of the world
  • a man/woman on a mission
  • a man/woman with a mission
  • a man/woman/person of action
  • a person after (one's) own
  • a whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men
  • a woman after (one's) own heart
  • a woman for all seasons
  • a woman is as old as she admits
  • a woman of few words
  • a woman of her word
  • a woman, man, person, etc. of substance
  • a woman's place is in the home
  • a woman's work is never done
  • all over the place like a mad woman's custard
  • anyone in their right mind
  • as (something) as the next man/woman/person
  • as one
  • Athanasian wench
  • be (one's) man/woman
  • be (one's) own man/woman/person
  • be a fine figure of a (man or woman)
  • be a man/woman of his/her word
  • be somebody's man/woman
  • be twice the man or woman that someone is
  • be twice the man/woman
  • be twice the man/woman that (someone) is
  • be your own man/woman
  • behind every great man is a great woman
  • behind every great man, there's a great woman
  • big woman on campus
  • business woman
  • comfort woman
  • every woman for herself
  • fallen woman
  • feel like a new man/woman
  • Hell has no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
  • hell has no fury like a woman scorned
  • hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
  • I am (someone), hear me (do something)
  • I am woman, hear me roar!
  • kept woman
  • like a man/woman possessed
  • make an honest woman (out) of (someone)
  • make an honest woman of
  • make an honest woman of her
  • make an honest woman of somebody
  • make an honest woman of someone
  • man in the street
  • man of the world
  • man/woman/gentleman/lady of leisure
  • marked man, a
  • May the best man/woman win.
  • nasty woman
  • new man
  • new woman
  • of few words, man of
  • old lady
  • old woman
  • one heck of a (something or someone)
  • one hell of a (something or someone)
  • one-woman show
  • own person, be one's
  • own woman
  • point woman
  • poor man's
  • Renaissance man
  • repo woman
  • right-hand man
  • scarlet woman
  • self-made man
  • straight woman
  • the inner man/woman
  • the little woman
  • the man, woman, etc. of the moment
  • the man/woman in (one's) life
  • the man/woman in your life
  • the man/woman on the Clapham omnibus
  • the man/woman/thing of (one's) dreams
  • the old woman is plucking her goose
  • the thinking man's/women's crumpet
  • the woman on the street
  • to a man
  • to a woman
  • woman crush Wednesday
  • woman of color
  • woman of God
  • woman of ill repute
  • woman of letters
  • woman of many parts
  • woman of means
  • woman of the match
  • woman of the world
  • woman up
  • woman-about-town
  • yer woman
  • yesterday's man/woman
  • you can't keep a good man down
  • you can't keep a good man/woman down
  • your right-hand man
  • your woman
References in classic literature
The old woman seated herself on the trunk of the fallen tree, threw aside the hood that shrouded her gray locks, and beckoned her companion to draw near.
From Twice Told Tales
They would have no illusions, and a woman without illusions is the dreariest and most difficult thing to manage possible."
Elizabeth and her German Garden
In short, he left himself no room to ask any more questions about her estate, and she took the advantage of it like a prudent woman, for she placed part of her fortune so in trustees, without letting him know anything of it, that it was quite out of his reach, and made him be very well content with the rest.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
A fine and white stocking, a silken robe, a lace kerchief, a pretty slipper on the foot, a tasty ribbon on the head do not make an ugly woman pretty, but they make a pretty woman beautiful, without reckoning the hands, which gain by all this; the hands, among women particularly, to be beautiful must be idle.
Three Musketeers
And I obliged the old woman and spake thus unto her:
Thus Spake Zarathustra
I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.
Flatland
'And healthy,' said the old woman, 'as the fresh wind?'
Hard Times
One woman has a gift of healing, another not; one is a musician, and another has no music in her nature?
Republic
I ain't so weak for an old woman, although I am on parish allowance; no, no!'
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
He went over to the table and held out an eager hand to the woman.
Maggie A Girl of the Streets
CONCERNING THE PERFECT WOMAN, AND THEREFORE CONCERNING ALL FEMININE READERS
Quest of the Golden Girl
HAVING arisen from the tomb, a Woman presented herself at the gate of Heaven, and knocked with a trembling hand.
Fantastic Fables
They were standing on deck at a point which was temporarily deserted, and as Tarzan came upon them they were in heated argument with a woman. Tarzan noted that she was richly appareled, and that her slender, well-modeled figure denoted youth; but as she was heavily veiled he could not discern her features.
The Return of Tarzan
It mattered not whether he sat at dinner in the gold commissioner's house, called for the drinks in a dancehall, or submitted to an interview from the woman representative of the New York Sun, one and all of them held out their arms.
Burning Daylight
That's my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable mistake.
War and Peace