Parent Phrases

Phrases

• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• Absent parent
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• Adult entertainment (euphemism for sexual or violent entertainment)
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• 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)
• Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
• Baby father
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Can you hear me, mother? (A catchphrase from Sandy Powell)
• Child of God
• Child's play
• Children and fools tell the truth
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Children's shoes have far to go (Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan)
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Chip off the old block
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Earth mother
• Every mother's son
• Face that only a mother could love
• Family man
• Family matters
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Founding father
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Genetic fingerprint
• Genetic makeup
• Give up
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Go tell your mother she wants you
• Go with child
• Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
• Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
• Harper Valley PTA (Jeannie C. Riley song)
• Head of the household
• Heavy with child
• Helicopter parent
• His father's son
• Home alone
• Honour thy father and mother
• House mother
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• How's your father
• I swear on my mother's life
• I'll be mother
• In loco parentis
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Like father, like son
• Like mother used to make
• Love child

• 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)
• Midnight's Children
• 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
• Our children are not our children
• Our father who art in heaven
• Parental rights
• Parents who use drugs have kids who use drugs (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• Pester power
• Problem child
• Sandwich generation
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Suffer the little children
• Sunday's child is full of grace
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills movie)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The boy is father to the man
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The grand-daddy of them all
• The mother of all battles
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The sash my father wore
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• The wish is father to the thought
• This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
• Thursday's child has far to go
• Tied to his mother's apron strings
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Wednesday's child has far to go
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Who's little boy are you?
• Who's she, the cat's mother?
• Wicked stepmother
• With child
• Women and children first
• Your Mother Should Know (The Beatles song)