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mother of all

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

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