Bowl a maiden over
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When searching for a new outfit in the TARDIS wardrobe, the Seventh Doctor donned the Fifth Doctor's cricketing outfit and asked the Rani whether the outfit would bowl a maiden over. (TV: Time and the Rani)
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The phrase has two meanings in English, both of which were intended by the scene. The original, cricketing meaning is to bowl an over without allowing a single run — a "maiden over". The other meaning was to impress a young woman, as in to "bowl someone off their feet". In this case, the "maiden" was Mel, to whom the regeneration-addled Doctor thought he was talking.
