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单词	housemother
释义	housemother /ˈhaʊsˌmʌðə / noun A woman in charge of and living in a boarding school house or children’s home.In those days, the cottages now used for respite care for disabled children were run as individual homes where husband-and-wife teams, known as housefathers and housemothers, looked after abandoned or orphaned children.... Kate found the training school alienating, and her claims that her housemother disliked her were dismissed as irrational, possibly adding to her sense of injustice. It was a joy to sit amid thirty or so girls and give a devotional talk as two of the housemothers translated my English into Tagalog.
随便看	not have a cat in hell's chance not have a leg to stand on not have a penny to bless oneself with not have a pot to piss in not have a prayer not have a shot in one's locker not have a —— bone in one's body not have the faintest not have the foggiest (idea or notion) not have two pennies (or farthings etc.) to rub together nothing nothingarian nothingarianism nothing but nothing-but-ism nothing-buttery nothing daunted nothing doing nothing if not nothingism nothingist nothingless nothing less than nothingly nothing much

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