step mother Idiom, Proverb

Mother Nature

nature, natural forces and causes Mother Nature provided the basic foods: wild vegetables and water.

motherhood and apple pie

statements about mom and home etc. The audience wants news and facts, not motherhood and apple pie.

motherload

the largest amount, the main load They found a few nuggets of gold before they found the motherload.

necessity is the mother of invention

our needs cause us to invent devices, build a better mousetrap Do you think the invention of TV proves that necessity is the mother of invention?

tied to your mother's apron strings

still dependent on mom, needing your mom's help He has to ask his mother. He's still tied to her apron strings.

motherfuck

1. a general curse usually in imperitive "motherfuck the pigs"
2. a supreme insult, an expletive
3. a damn; "I don't give a motherfuck"
4. the hell; "Get the motherfuck out!"

motherfucker

1. respectless person with no attitude
2. a supreme insult, an expletive based on the incest taboo, prob. the ultimate in obscenities
3. anything one dislikes
4. a damn, e.g. "I don't give a motherfucker"

motherfuckin

another way of saying fucking (1)

tied to one's mother's apron strings

Idiom(s): tied to one's mother's apron strings

Theme: CONTROL

dominated by one's mother; dependent on one's mother.
• Tom is still tied to his mother's apron strings.
• Isn't he a little old to be tied to his mother's apron strings?

old enough to be one's mother

Idiom(s): old enough to be someone's mother AND old enough to be someone's father

Theme: AGE - OLD

as old as someone's parents. (Usually a way of saying that a person is too old.)
• You can't go out with Bill. He's old enough to be your father!
• He married a woman who is old enough to be his mother.

step-mother

A changeable caregiver of a adolescent who affected the affectionate role through alliance to one of the child's aboriginal (usually biological) parents. Most commonly, a step-mother is the additional wife of a child's biological father. I alive with my mom during the anniversary and again appointment my dad and step-mother every added weekend.

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More Idioms/Phrases

on again, off again on a fool's errand on a first-name basis old hand at old enough to be one's mother old as the hills off-the-wall off-the-cuff off to one side off to a running start step out of (something or some place) (and) into (some place) step out of line step out on someone step outside step over step right up step right up to (someone or something) step things up step to (one) step to it step up step up (one's) game step up to step up to (someone or something) step up to the plate step/tread on someone's toes, to step-by-step stepchild step-child step-dad step-daughter step-father Stephen step-kid step-mom step-mother step-parent stepped on step-son sterling qualities stern sterner Steven stevens stew stew bum stew in (one's) (own) juice(s) stew in one's own juice stew in one's own juice, left to stew in own juice stew in your own juice stew on a shingle stew zoo stewed stewed to the ears stewed to the gills stewed up stewed, screwed, and tattooed STFU sth sths