maiden aunt

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maiden aunt - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  maiden aunt \maiden aunt\ n.
     Literally, an aunt who has never been married. Figuratively,
     it is a term used as the prototype of a person who is broadly
     naive and not wise in worldly ways; as, he knows as much
     about programming as my maiden aunt.
     [PJC]

maiden aunt - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  maiden aunt
      n 1: an unmarried aunt