Vocabulary: Idioms about Mothers

Idioms about Mothers

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Mother's Day is a time to show our respect and gratitude to our mothers. Here a list of idioms about mothers.

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A list of idioms about mothers

at your mother's knee

said about something that you learned when you were a child.

She learned to sing at her mother's knee.

expectant mother

a pregnant woman.

There are many good tips for expectant mothers in this little book.

experience is the mother of wisdom

this idiom is used to mean that people learn from what happens to them.

You will never understand the love parents have for their children until you get your own children. Experience is really the mother of wisdom.

face (that) only a mother could love

a very ugly face.

Look at that poor girl. That's a face that only a mother could love.

he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

This is a proverb which means that if you intend to marry a woman, first try to win her mother on your side.

Listen Joe, if you want to marry Nancy, try to impress her mother first and be sure that she is on your side. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.

like mother, like daughter

This is a proverb which means that daughters resemble their mothers.

Like mother, like daughter. Liza's mother is mad about chocolate, too.

necessity is the mother of invention

This proverb means that when people really need to do something, they will find a way to do it.

When her pen had run out of ink, she used her lipstick to write a short note to her husband who was at work.

the mother of all

an extreme example which is the biggest, most impressive, or most important of its kind.

Failure is the mother of all success.