You Scatty Scandinavian

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That's an old English idiom: Making an honest woman of her...

It dates from a time when people used to get married (a practice on the decline, I'm happy to say).

If a man was living with a woman and they were not married it was considered a scandal. And it was 'suggested' he marry her and 'make an honest woman of her'. 

I think 'honest' was the wrong word to choose - even though it does have the  less familiar meaning: 'moral and virtuous. But of course one cannot expect a Swedish person like yourself  to know that.

Only joking. Ask your average English person to define honest and I doubt he/she would come up with 'moral and virtuous'.

Anyway, you don't want to be made an honest woman of - do you?

George