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- Popularized after its use by Saddam Hussein, then president of Iraq, in reference to the Gulf War as ام المعارك ("mother of battles"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And the man called his wife's name Eve (Life) because she was the mother of all living.”
“The ground war ended on February 28 with the total defeat of the Iraqi forces, and we immediately launched negotiations on what became Resolution 687, “the mother of all resolutions,” so dubbed by Soviet “permanent representative” Yuli Vorontsov.”
“They were drilling for HDR, or hot dry rock, “the mother of all mother lodes,” as one man put it.”
“Bruno, the Pantheist, was also a Materialist: "Matter is not without its forms, but contains them all; and since it carries what is wrapped up in itself, it is in truth all nature and the mother of all the living.”
““W-William, is t-that a tiger?” she whispered in the stark silence, staring at what looked like the mother of all Bengal tigers sitting in the back bed of the truck, staring at them through the rear window.”
“The fine-grained, slow-grown mother of all pencils is incense cedar from the forests of Oregon, where a single tree may grow 140 feet high, with a trunk five feet across, enough cedar wood to make 150,000 pencils.”
“Nick could have left it there: the man just wanted the sword because he was a collector, this was the mother of all swords, to add it to his collection would be—”
“She is the mother of all believers, according to 1Pe 3: 6, and so deserving of some such distinction.”
“Ms. K then riled up the mother of all backbiting, class-ignorant women writers of all time, Maureen Dowd, who agreed in print in the New York Times that Roseanne Connor was loud and loose and could not walk from the soundstage to the hallowed halls of The New Yorker up in this mothafocka!”
“To Bast, mother of all Catkind, and her four-legged children everywhere.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘mother of all’.
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American Dialect Society Word of the ...
1990-2009
bushlips, mother of all, Not!, information super..., cyber, morph, web, newt, mom, millenium bug, e-, y2k and 12 more...
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A Mother of a List
Figurative 'mother' expressions.
mother-water, mother-liquor, mother-lye, mother-of-vinegar, mother-pearl, mother-of-pearl, mother-queen, motherboard, mothership, motherland, motherlode, motherload and 29 more...
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