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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