plaster saint

1. 1.

   a person (considered to be) without human failings

   “he's no plaster saint”

   Broadergood person

Questions about plaster saint

What does plaster saint mean?

plaster saint means "a person (considered to be) without human failings".

Is plaster saint a common word?

plaster saint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.