Mother Phrases

Phrases

• 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
• 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
• Dysfunctional family
• Earth mother
• Earth to mom
• Every mother 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
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• I swear on my mother 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
• Keep it in the family
• Keep mum
• Keep mum, she's not so dumb (WWII slogan)
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Learnt at your mother knee
• 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)
• 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 boy
• Mother help
• Mother little helper
• Mother milk
• Mother 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)
• 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 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 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 apron strings
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• 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

Related

• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Can you hear me, mother? (A catchphrase from Sandy Powell)
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Earth mother
• Every mother's son
• Face that only a mother could love
• Go tell your mother she wants you
• Honour thy father and mother
• House mother
• I swear on my mother's life
• I'll be mother
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Like mother used to make
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• The mother of all battles
• Tied to his mother's apron strings
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Who's she, the cat's mother?
• Your Mother Should Know (The Beatles song)