the.com/match made in heaven
A pairing so perfect it must be someone else's doing, not yours.
means A couple or combination so ideally suited to each other that it seems arranged by fate rather than chance.
from The phrase grows from 'matchmaking' and 'match' meaning a marriage pairing, a sense dating back centuries, combined with the old religious idea that marriages were sanctioned or arranged by God — 'made in heaven' as opposed to merely made by parents or brokers on earth. The exact phrase crystallized as a common expression over time, often now used loosely for any two things — people, flavors, products — that simply fit.
- origin
- Marriages were once literally arranged, by families or priests
- irony
- Often said sarcastically about disastrous, chaotic pairings now
- usage shift
- Applies to pizza and wine as much as spouses
- implication
- Suggests fate did the matching, not your judgment