Words and Idioms about Mothers and Parenting
Happy Mother’s Day! Here are 20 words and expressions about mothers and parenting.
- a face only a mother could love – an ugly face
- a mother has eyes in the back of her head – a mother knows what her children are doing even when she can’t see them
- a tiger mother – a strict and demanding mother
- everyone and his mother – lots of people
- like mother, like daughter – daughters often behave like their mothers did before them
- mama’s boy – a boy or man who is easily influenced by his mother
- Mother Goose – a fictitious collector of nursery rhymes from the eighteenth century
- mother hen – someone who fusses over others in a maternal way
- mother house – the principle house in a religious order
- Mother Nature – the personification of nature
- Mother of God – the Virgin Mary
- mother’s milk – something necessary and important
- mother’s ruin – gin
- mothercraft – skills related to the care of children
- ‘Mum’s the word!’ – ‘Say nothing!’
- necessity is the mother of invention – when the need for something is crucial, one will find ways of creating, finding or achieving it
- the mother of all (something) – the largest/most extreme of something
- tied to his mother’s apron strings – attached and dependent on his mother
- to keep mum – to keep quiet about something
- to learn something at your mother’s knee – to learn something at an early age
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24 Mar 2017
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