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单词
school-gate mum
释义
school-gate mum
in British English
noun
British
a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
Word origin
C21: from the fact that such women are to be seen congregating at school gates everyafternoon, waiting to take their children home
Examples of 'school-gate mum' in a sentence
school-gate mum
Maybe rethink that now the school-gate mums are doing it.
Times, Sunday Times
(
2013
)
Now, everyone from her neighbours to school-gate mums knows what she did.
Times, Sunday Times
(
2013
)
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to be slumming (it)
to be snookered
to be snowed under with work
to be soaked or drenched to the skin
to be soft on sb
to be sold out of sth
to be some distance/quite a distance/a fair distance from sth
to be sore about sth
to be sore at sb
to be sorely tempted (to do sth)
to be sorry about sth
to be sorry/pleased/angry about sth
to be specific to
to be speechless with rage/astonishment
to be spirited away
to be spoiling for a fight
to be stabbed/beaten to death
to be stacked with ...
to best advantage
to be starved of ...
to be steeped in history
to be/step out of line
to (best/good) advantage
to bestow sth on sb
to be straight with sb
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