“the mother”

The following 2 entries include the term the mother.

necessity is the mother of invention

idiom

used to say that new ways to do things are found or created when there is a strong and special need for them

the mother of all

idiom

used to say that something is larger, better, worse, etc., than all other things of the same kind

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