Mother Idioms
Idiomatic Expressions related to the Word “MOTHER"
Mother
Idioms
Mother
idioms are idiomatic expressions that include the word “mother” and often
reflect social and common ethics and principles related to motherhood. These
idioms are a big addition of meaning to our communication.
1. A mama’s boy
Meaning: A boy who allows his mother to have too much impact on him.
Example:
She thought she loved him until she realized he was a momma’s boy who can’t do
anything without his mother’s approval.
2. At your mother’s knee
Meaning: to
learn to do something when you are a young child.
Example:
Sana learned how to bake at her mother’s knee when she was a little girl.
3. Everyone and his mother
Meaning:
Used to express a majority of people.
Example: I’m so jealous, everyone and his mother is
going on a vacation this summer except for me.
4. The mother of all
Meaning: A
large collection of a particular type of thing
Example:
Last Sunday I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.
5. Mother Nature
Meaning:
The force that controls the natural world
Example: The
people who have experienced a cyclone can better describe the power of mother
nature.
6. A face only a mother could love
Meaning: A
very ugly or unattractive face
Example: She
is an intelligent girl but she has a face only a mother could love.
7. Mothercraft
Meaning: Skills
related to the care of children.
Example:
They established an Asian mothercraft society
8. To keep mum
Meaning: To
keep quiet about something
Example: He
asked his friend to keep mum about where they are.
9. Mothers house
Meaning:
The principles house in a religious order
Example: They
were busy writing the annual report to the order’s motherhouse.
10. Mother craft
Meaning: Skills
related to the care of children
Example:
His parents want to establish the best mothercraft society.
11. Expectant mother
Meaning: A
pregnant woman.
Example: You
should give your seat to the expectant mother standing by the door.
12. Experience is the mother of wisdom
Meaning:
This idiom is used to mean that people learn from their experience.
Example:
You will never understand the love parents have for their children until you
get your own children. Experience is really the mother of wisdom.
13. Be tied to (one’s) mother’s apron strings
Meaning: An
adult makes extremely attached his mother.
Example: He
Cannot make a decision on his own because he tied to his mother’s apron
strings?
14. Like mother, like daughter
Meaning:
Daughters tend to do what their mothers did before them.
Example: My
mother is crazy about biryani. Every time, when my father seems me eating biryani,
he says, “like mother, like daughter.”
15. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin
Meaning: It means that if you intend to marry a woman,
first try to win her mother on your side.
Example: If he wants to marry Annie, first try to win her mother on your side. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
16. A tiger mother
Meaning: A
strict and demanding mother
Example:
his mother was a tiger mother and fulfilled his needs as mother and father.
17. Experience is the mother of wisdom
Meaning:
This idiom is used to mean that people learn from their experience.
Example:
You will never understand the love parents have for their children until you
get your own children. Experience is really the mother of wisdom.
18. Necessity is the mother of invention
Meaning:
Things are found or created when there is a strong need for them
Example:
When her car’s fan belt broke at a desert, she used her socks as a
replacement. Necessity is the mother of invention.
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