Rate this phrase:2.0 / 1 vote

mother of all

Used before a plural noun to form a compound noun having the sense of: the greatest or largest of its kind.
325 Views
“

Driving to a dinner engagement, a Parisian woman gets stuck in the mother of all traffic jams, offers a ride to a handsome pedestrian, and enters a fleeting affair that catches both of them by surprise.

Collection   Edit    

Submitted on July 07, 2010

Translation

Find a translation for the mother of all phrase in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Nearby phrases

Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to mother of all

let it all hang-out!my very educated mother just served us …not all it's cracked up to belike mother, like daughtermother lodemy very educated mother just served us …not at alllife is not all beer and skittlesof all thingsof all thingslife's not all skittles and beermother of all ....like all get outmake all the difference

How to pronounce this phrase?

Discuss this mother of all phrase with the community:

0 Comments

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this mother of all definition to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "mother of all." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 Nov. 2024. <https://www.phrases.com/phrase/mother-of-all_20510>.

    Powered by CITE.ME Cite.Me

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest human-edited phrases collection on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a phrases master?

    »
    Less ________, more speed.
    A interest
    B thought
    C consideration
    D haste

    Browse Phrases.com

    #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ