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- A boy's best friend is his mother ( Psycho )
- Absent parent
- All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way ( the opening line of Anna Karenina )
- Alma Mater ( the school or college from which a person has graduated )
- Alpha Mom ( an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children )
- Apple pie and motherhood
- Are you sitting comfortably? ( A catchphrase from Listen With Mother )
- Atom Heart Mother ( Pink Floyd album )
- Attila the Nun ( Nickname of Sister Agnes ( Priscilla Lopez ) )
- Be like Dad, keep mum ( WWII slogan )
- Beanpole family
- Black sheep of the family ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Breast is best ( slogan of breastfeeding campaign )
- Bricks and mortar ( Cockney rhyming slang for daughter )
- Can you hear me, mother? ( A catchphrase from Sandy Powell )
- Come to mama
- Cut the umbilical cord
- Did I do that? ( A catchphrase from Family Matters )
- Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
- Don't forget the fruit gums Mum ( Rowntrees advertising slogan )
- Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington
- Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Dysfunctional family
- Earth mother
- Earth to mom
- Every mother's son
- Face that only a mother could love
- Family fortunes
- Family man
- Family matters
- Family ties
- Family tree
- Family values
- Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing ( St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan )
- Go tell your mother she wants you
- Has your girl turned into a refrigerator? If her air is arctic, try MUM ( Mum Deodorant advertising slogan )
- Head of the family
- Head of the household
- Helicopter mom
- Helicopter parent
- Hockey Mom
- Honour thy father and mother
- House mother
- Hung Up ( Madonna song )
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus ( Spike Jones song )
- I Think I Love You ( The Partridge Family song )
- I swear on my mother's life
- I'll be mother
- If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
- In the family way
- It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( BBC comedy television series )
- It isn't nice to fool mother nature
- It's a family affair
- It's black over Bill's mother's
- Keep it in the family
- Keep mum
- Keep mum, she's not so dumb ( WWII slogan )
- Kid tested Mother approved ( Kix advertising slogan )
- Lady Madonna ( Beatles song )
- Lady Madonna, children at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
- Learnt at your mother's knee
- Like A Virgin ( Madonna album )
- Like a Prayer ( Madonna song )
- Like mother used to make
- Look ma, no hands!
- Make Your Own Kind Of Music ( Mama Cass Elliot song )
- Mama Bear
- Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
- Mama always said that there would be days like this
- Mama mia, that's a spicy meatball! ( Alka Seltzer advertising slogan )
- Mamma mia, here I go again ( ABBA lyric )
- Material Girl ( Madonna song )
- Mom and Pop
- Mother Courage ( play by Bertolt Brecht )
- Mother Earth
- Mother Russia
- Mother Superior jumped the gun ( Beatles song lyric )
- Mother church
- Mother country
- Mother f*cker
- Mother hen
- Mother knows best
- Mother love
- Mother nature
- Mother of God
- Mother ship
- Mother tongue
- Mother's boy
- Mother's help
- Mother's little helper
- Mother's milk
- Mother's ruin
- Motherhood and apple pie
- Mum's gone to Iceland ( Iceland Supermarkets advertising slogan )
- Mum's the word
- Mummy porn
- My arse ( A catchphrase from Royle Family )
- My mama didn't raise no dummy
- My son the doctor
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Old enough to be your mother
- One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
- Our survey says ( A catchphrase from Family Fortunes )
- Ray Of Light ( Madonna album )
- Red-hot mama
- Runs in the family
- Ryan's Daughter ( David Lean movie )
- Sell your grandmother
- Selling the family silver
- Separated at birth
- Soccer Mom
- Soccer Mom indicator
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em ( BBC comedy television series )
- Spend more time with my family
- Step on a crack, break your mother's back
- Stop, or my mom will shoot ( line from Sylvestor Stallone movie )
- Super mom
- Tell them about the honey, mummy ( Sugar Puffs advertising slogan )
- The Birth of a Nation ( D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie )
- The Grocer's Daughter ( Nickname of Margaret Thatcher )
- The Immaculate Collection ( Madonna album )
- The Parent Trap ( Hayley Mills movie )
- The Royle Family ( BBC comedy television series )
- The angel in the house
- The bank of mum and dad
- The family jewels
- The family silver
- The family that prays together stays together
- The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
- The mother of all battles
- Tied to his mother's apron strings
- Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
- True Blue ( Madonna album )
- Want some seafood Mama ( Fats Waller song )
- We're Just One Big Happy Family ( Richard Hawley song )
- We're just one big happy family
- When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me ( Beatles song lyric )
- Who's she, the cat's mother?
- Wicked stepmother
- You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
- Your Mother Should Know ( The Beatles song )
- Yummy mummy