mother wit

NOUN
  1. sound practical judgment
    fortunately she had the good sense to run away
    Common sense is not so common
    he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
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How To Use mother wit In A Sentence

  • Two medical personnel had just shot her mother with a tranquilizer dart and had bound her with restraining cloth.
  • Like many bushrangers, he was Irish in origin, the son of a father with a lurid, criminal past, and a mother with a fiery temper, a taste for strong liquor and grizzled lovers.
  • When Paula vindictively sets up a date for her mother with a kindly old dullard, the film resorts to caricature and grotesque camera effects to persuade us of how unseemly the older gent's needs and desires are.
  • Cissie obeyed her mother without question.
  • Infants are raised principally by the mother with the help of extended kin.
  • They have set up development circles designed to hone the skills of would-be mediums such as this ordinary wife and mother with a super sceptic husband.
  • A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette. Baiser - French Word-A-Day
  • It sounds much more like you three than your mother with that last bit tagged on. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Ultimately, however, the poet objects far less to her supposedly natural feminine sluttishness than to her apparently unnatural intellectual pursuits: ‘Women grown intellectual grow dull, / And lose the mother wit of natural trull’.
  • If your father allows you to swear at your mother without censure, it's horrible and reprehensible, but a private matter.
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