英语词汇“mother of all”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mother of all —— n. [in quot. 1990 after Arabic umm al-maʿārik mother of battles (see also note below)] something that is outstanding or exemplary (in magnitude, importance, etc.); anything that is definitive in character, or that is the epitome of its kind; frequently humorous. Cf. the father and mother of a —— at father n. Phrases 8.Popularized as a catchphrase by Saddam Hussein (b. Saddam bin Hussein at-Takriti 1937), President of Iraq from 1979, with reference to the Gulf War (see quot. 1990). Perhaps reinforced in later use by the euphemistic use of mother to mean ‘motherfucker’ (see sense 7 and motherfucker n. 2b), hence the occasionally occurrence of the form mutha in the phrase.

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1878 F. H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 99 I seed the biggest trout I ever laid eyes on... The mother of all the trouts in Reese River, by thunder.

1892 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 41 The father and mother of all weed-spuds.]

1936 B. Atkinson in N.Y. Times 28 Dec. 13/2 Ilka Chase presides over the proceedings like the mother of all vultures; playing the part as it was written, she leaves no bone unpicked.

1990 tr. S. Hussein in Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East, Afr. & Latin Amer. (B.B.C.) 22 Sept. ME/0876/A/1 What midgets they are! May they, most of all Bush and his servants Fahd and Husni, be accursed... Everybody must realise that this battle will be the mother of all battles.

1992 Economist 15 Feb. 92/1 America's current economic recession is being billed as the ‘mother of all recessions’: the economy, it is claimed, is mired in its longest recession since the second world war.

1995 New Statesman & Society 17 Mar. 35/1 What writers can suffer from is the notorious writer's block, and I've just been reading the work of Henry Roth, the man famous for enduring the mother of all writer's blocks.

2000 New Yorker 22 May 22/2 A sentimental fantasy by director Gregory Hoblit which wants to be the mother of all father-son movies.

单词	mother of all
释义	> as lemmas mother of all —— mother of all —— n. [in quot. 1990 after Arabic umm al-maʿārik mother of battles (see also note below)] something that is outstanding or exemplary (in magnitude, importance, etc.); anything that is definitive in character, or that is the epitome of its kind; frequently humorous. Cf. the father and mother of a —— at father n. Phrases 8.Popularized as a catchphrase by Saddam Hussein (b. Saddam bin Hussein at-Takriti 1937), President of Iraq from 1979, with reference to the Gulf War (see quot. 1990). Perhaps reinforced in later use by the euphemistic use of mother to mean ‘motherfucker’ (see sense 7 and motherfucker n. 2b), hence the occasionally occurrence of the form mutha in the phrase. ΚΠ 1878 F. H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 99 I seed the biggest trout I ever laid eyes on... The mother of all the trouts in Reese River, by thunder. 1892 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 41 The father and mother of all weed-spuds.] 1936 B. Atkinson in N.Y. Times 28 Dec. 13/2 Ilka Chase presides over the proceedings like the mother of all vultures; playing the part as it was written, she leaves no bone unpicked. 1990 tr. S. Hussein in Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East, Afr. & Latin Amer. (B.B.C.) 22 Sept. ME/0876/A/1 What midgets they are! May they, most of all Bush and his servants Fahd and Husni, be accursed... Everybody must realise that this battle will be the mother of all battles. 1992 Economist 15 Feb. 92/1 America's current economic recession is being billed as the ‘mother of all recessions’: the economy, it is claimed, is mired in its longest recession since the second world war. 1995 New Statesman & Society 17 Mar. 35/1 What writers can suffer from is the notorious writer's block, and I've just been reading the work of Henry Roth, the man famous for enduring the mother of all writer's blocks. 2000 New Yorker 22 May 22/2 A sentimental fantasy by director Gregory Hoblit which wants to be the mother of all father-son movies. extracted from mothern.¹int. < as lemmas
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