pop the question

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The luxury marriage proposal business is booming in Paris with international clients happy to pay thousands to pop the question in the most romantic way possible in the City of Love.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Somehow the burning need to just know what his intentions might be gave me the courage to pop the question: “Do you think you’ll ever get married again?”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

While 27,500 runners were huffing and puffing their way around Sunday's Cardiff Half Marathon, one of them seemingly felt it was a case of perfect timing to pop the question.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2023

So when it came time to pop the question to his girlfriend, Ann, in 1989, DeHovitz decided to place a reader ad himself: “Ann, my love for you is forever! Please marry me. Love, Ross.”

From New York Times • May 9, 2023

“Likes you? He called up this morning to ax me if I thought you was ever gonna remarry. Lord. I says, ‘Well, Claude, you gotta pop the question.’

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole