Idiom of the day :- Ask for someone’s hand

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

In a thousand instances of marriage, I would guess that in nine hundred and ninety-nine of them it is the man who asks for someone’s hand. I say that because this expression means to ask a person to get married. It’s a marriage proposal. ‘Angela, I am here on bended knee to ask for your hand,’ Tim joked.