VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

The mother of all

Meaning:

an extreme example which is the biggest, most impressive, or most important of its kind.

Examples:

  • You want to know what the mother of all bubbles was?
  • And yet, here you are sitting on the mother of all secrets.
  • JAKE: You want to know what the mother of all bubbles was?
  • Then we have the war in Iraq—the mother of all evils.
  • This was the mother of all bad ideas.
  • With the mother of all yeast infections.
  • Want the mother of all diversions, boys.
  • I got the mother of all headaches.
  • Let me state here that any harm to President Arafat would be the mother of all those mistakes.
  • You know, the mother of all experiments, it's not airtight. It's not tight.