everyone and their mother イディオム

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.