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The main idea is that appearances can be deceiving and people sometimes hide their true selves from others. A modern-day proverb, bemoaning the difficulty of finding a suitable male partner.

This phrase was coined by Eddie Green, as the title of his song A Good Man Is Hard To Find. This was composed in 1918 and first offered for sale as a piano roll in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette on 12th December that year.