How To Use Mother-in-law In A Sentence
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Always a good idea to keep the future mother-in-law sweet.
The Sun
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With consummate courtesy Alex got rid of his future mother-in-law, in record time.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky.
Success A Novel
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The devastated land included farms leased to tenants by Vermeer's mother-in-law.
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She was once very fat and is now very thin, but he recognises her as his former mother-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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TODAY'S gags are mother-in-law jokes from the internet.
The Sun
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Subsequently, Wu could not adapt to life in Singapore and often felt that she was being mistreated by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, whom she called "calculative".
Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
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Home builders across the country say they are getting an increasing number of requests for such additions, known as mother-in-law suites, granny flats or accessory dwellings.
Mother-in-law suites growing home trend
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If the bathroom is cold for most of the day, choose sansevierias (mother-in-law's tongue) - which will also survive in a poorly lit bathroom - or Nepenthes alata, a carnivorous plant with unusual hanging red traps.
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He needed to talk to his future mother-in-law and convince her that his intentions were honorable.
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My wife and mother-in-law are so helpful.
The Sun
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The young woman was not in the least bit cowed down by her mother-in-law's peremptory ways, nor by our presence.
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A man doesn't get delirium tremens even if he smokes more than is good for him; he doesn't become a debased mortal; there is nothing about tobacco which makes a man beat his wife or assault his mother-in-law -- rather the reverse, in fact, for tobacco is a soother and a quietener of the passions, and many a man, I daresay, has been prevented from doing rash things in the way of retaliation, when he has lit his pipe and had a good think over his affairs.
The Social History of Smoking
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I thought I could score some brownie points with my mother-in-law by offering to cook dinner.
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Martin's mother-in-law had one of those professional telephone voices, all nasally tones and clipped sentences.
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My mother-in-law knitted me pullovers, which went right up to the neck.
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She has a rather uneasy relationship with her mother-in-law.
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My mother-in-law's sandwiches are the dainty cut-off-crusts variety - so thin and delicate that my family barely recognises them as sandwiches.
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His wife comes from our town, and his beaming mother-in-law still lives here.
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Lovely alongside hard-boiled quail's eggs (as my mother-in-law serves it!)
Rigolo - French Word-A-Day
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She said her mother-in-law's requests to have the dressing on her foot changed went unheeded for four days, when it should have been done daily.
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My mother-in-law had recently had a long stay in hospital and we were unable to access her accounts to pay bills.
Times, Sunday Times
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But anyway, the Celebrity Big Brother house played host last week to the mother-in-law of all cat-fights when what started as a harmless "girls' night in", complete with pyjamas, chardonnay and Cyndi Lauper keening "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", ended up as Mean Girls as imagined by Bruegel.
Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name | Julie Burchill
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The party included me and my wife, my mother-in-law and her friend.
Times, Sunday Times
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She could hear her mother-in-law continue speaking but the words were unintelligible and seemed to come from a far-off distance.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE
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So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication.
Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay
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And so we have a blue veined marble in the living room, a sepia tinged marble in the bedroom and a pink-streaked one in my mother-in-law's room.
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I didn't know about the candied oranges — which just goes to show how my mother-in-law is always holding back an ingredient (chippie that she is) just to throw us off.
French Word-A-Day:
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She also troubleshoots for her grown kids, cares for her live-in mother-in-law (and elderly poodle, Snuffy), keeps tabs on her girlfriends Paulette and Bunny and her own aging mother and foster sister - and holds down a part-time job.
The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan: Book summary
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I mean, she's really committed to this role, stupid though it may be, of this nasty, nasty mother-in-law, and she kind of outclasses and outacts her.
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Whenever possible, we go back to relieve his wife and my mother-in-law Judith of her bedside vigil.
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That's the ugliest sweater I've ever seen. You should give it to charity or regift it to your mother-in-law.
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My mother-in-law had recently had a long stay in hospital and we were unable to access her accounts to pay bills.
Times, Sunday Times
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McGrath just chunters away like the worst kind of hectoring mother-in-law.
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I thought I could score some brownie points with my mother-in-law by offering to cook dinner.
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A passport mix-up nearly jinxed the recent ceremony, said the mother-in-law, the already happily married Judy Gates of Yarrow Point.
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My mother-in-law (who lives in sunny NC) found out she was severely deprived when her doc ran a routine blood screening.
And On The Seven-Hundredth Day, She Rested | Her Bad Mother
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His mother-in-law was anxious to be with her daughter in her dying moments.
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The very words "mother-in-law" can raise a laugh, though as agony aunt for Saga magazine I can tell you tiresome daughters-in-law are just as common.
Boring for Britain
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Terms & Expressions: une baignoire sabot = short tub for taking baths "assis" (seated) voir venir quelqu'un avec ses gros sabots = "to see someone coming" -- to see someone's true intentions in mother-in-law | Permalink
Mother-in-law
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Who else has a mother-in-law from hell?
Times, Sunday Times
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She could not or would not cook and her mother-in-law was reputed to be the best cook in Egypt.
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The smell of turkey was in the air, and even Estelle, my mother-in-law, had swilled an early glass of chardonnay.
Shortcut Man
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My mother-in-law asked my wife if she wanted to ride with them, but she declined.
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My mother-in-law is mentally ill and wreaking havoc on our marriage.
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The full extent of the conflict between Inah and her mother-in-law climaxed with Inah's sorcery accusation.
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French Vocabulary un chouia (m) = a smidgen; le réveillon (m) = Christmas Eve Dinner; une chippie (f) = little devil; la belle-mère (f) = mother-in-law
French Word-A-Day:
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It takes a good deal of time to explain why a harassed lawyer, his domineering mother-in-law, narcoleptic uncle, his ex-cook and a fellow legal letch should all arrive at a Parisian lovenest on the same night.
Once Bitten – review
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Imagine how much better life would be if there was a mute button on your mother-in-law, or a good cop / bad cop switch on the officer about to hand you a speeding fine, or even just a simple 'unjam' option on the office photocopier.
Worth1000.com photoshop contest listings
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Did you and I moreover belong to a family that hadn't the means to afford any ginseng, it would be difficult to say how we could manage to get it; but were your father and mother-in-law to hear that it's good for your recovery, why not to speak of two mace of ginseng a day, but even two catties will be also within their means!
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
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“There™s big curses and minor ones,” said the dwarven expert, “the curse of your mother-in-law and the curse of an unchancy god.”
The Lioness
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Eleanor would later blame her mother-in-law for her husband'sfrequent absences.
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I'd probably want to follow it with my mother-in-law's trifle or wonderful summer pudding.
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South of Shadowlight, which offered no resistance, the land rose and became gorsy, stony, and as wrinkled as my mother-in-law's face.
She Is The Darkness
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It was a mixed crowd, enlivened by a mother, daughter and son-in-law from Devon - blimey, the mother-in-law could put those beers away…
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My mother-in-law has been staying with us this past week and she's driving me crazy.
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I, who once had been a lonely little girl, am now mother, mother-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, grandmother, and great grand mother!
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Write a generous letter of reply, with interesting memories of mother-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also gives the subsidiary characters - a dim married couple and a meddlesome mother-in-law - meaty roles whose farce is grounded in wry truth.
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This was not, however, the case of Natura; and though he would doubtless have been what we call a spoiled child, had he been for any length of time permitted to do just what he pleased, yet the nurse being discharged, he fell again under the jurisdiction of his mother-in-law, who had now more excuse than ever for treating him with severity.
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
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It's the laundry detergent my mother-in-law uses.
Christianity Today
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It was explained to me that my mother-in-law would like me to write a short note to Lord Ram, as was the tradition.
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Mike Tindall, acting captain of the English national rugby team, says his future mother-in-law, Princess Anne, recently asked him if he was going to get his schnoz fixed before the wedding to her daughter, Zara.
The Royals Keep Calm and Marry On
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I ain't no princess, and there will be no matching mother/daughter crinolined dresses much to the chagrin of my Mother-in-Law.
Sugar and Spice
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When my mother entered the sitting room with my father, her mother-in-law was seated at the far end on a formal, carved square padauk chair.
WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA
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He poisoned his mother-in-law in the delusory hope of a legacy.
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And my mother-in-law followed her husband.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sethu remembers her mother-in-law as an orthodox person who managed to run the house with very little money.
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MY mother-in-law is a well-balanced person.
The Sun
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What does your mother-in-law think about these boys her daughter's husband consorts with?
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His speech at my second wedding was disastrous because he made a mother-in-law joke and the mother-in-law had only died a few weeks before.
Times, Sunday Times
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She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law
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I have this very day taxied my soi-disant mother-in-law to the train station and thus regained internet access.
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Then there are the dimwitted and inexperienced daughters-in-law who think they know as much as, or even more than, their mother-in-law.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
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This open spatial setting is antipodal to the domestic environs of the healing stories of Peter's mother-in-law and the synagogue leader's daughter.
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a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law
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Browne's jurisdiction may have include Karachi which is where Mushka Khan went to speak with the madar-i wali-ahd, or the widow of Sher Ali and mother-in-law of Sardar Muhammad Hashim Khan, at one time the heir apparent to the Durrani throne, who was said to have information about the original orders. back
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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All it took for Sevilla to kick-start their season was to ditch the mother-in-law, reports Sid Lowe.
Another humiliating defeat
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But since every book is acted out in the readers' imagination, a Welshman could claim that Mrs. Rupa Mehra, the mulish, mawkish mother in Seth's novel, was his own mother-in-law.
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She had to stress how kind her husband and mother-in-law were.
The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
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Because of the time difference their celebrations would already be under way, so after calling her mother at her retirement community in Erie, Bonnie planned to call her mother-in-law in Scranton, where her children and grandchildren were attending the traditional family gathering.
The Aloha Quilt
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My mother-in-law has been staying with us this past week and she's driving me crazy.
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Last week I received a letter from my mother-in-law in which she thanked me for "ce temps que tu m'as accordé alors que Maxime était haut comme 3 pommes ... je recevais des courages de toi ...".
Recette / Recipe
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A character who is presumably either her doddering old grandmother or mother-in-law comes out with some cups of tea.
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They showed up at my home before dinner, and dragged me away in front of my father-in-law and mother-in-law.
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Her mother-in-law belonged to an old Baghdad Jewish family which had decamped to Israel, where she married a man named Judea.
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It was Mother’s Day 1999 and I had to call my mother-in-law back home in Louisville, Kentucky and tell her that her oldest son had just died.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People
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She is always running down her mother-in-law in public.
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Browne's jurisdiction may have include Karachi which is where Mushka Khan went to speak with the madar-i wali-ahd, or the widow of Sher Ali and mother-in-law of Sardar Muhammad Hashim Khan, at one time the heir apparent to the Durrani throne, who was said to have information about the original orders. back
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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A nest of wasps gathered in my mother-in-law's garden shed and I bought a spray and killed them all.
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My mother-in-law treats her daughter 's stepchildren as if they are her own grandchildren and my son is feeling really pushed out.
The Sun
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I'm looking forward to Sunday, the only fly in the ointment being the fact that I shall have to sit next to my mother-in-law.
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Nez's mother-in-law lived with him, which was a direct violation of the taboo against such conduct.
THE FALLEN MAN
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According to Apter, the mother-in-law is genuinely bewildered by her daughter-in-law's rebuffs of friendship.
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Based on this account, Waldman's jealousy and ungenerousness have apparently caused her to project her worst feelings and impulses onto her mother-in-law with little foundation.
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Some of the men sport mother-in-law wedding hats.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wanderer received a royal welcome in Santa Barbara from his mother-in-law and such brothers- and sisters-in-law as were about.
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With consummate courtesy Alex got rid of his future mother-in-law, in record time.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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I'm selling this on behalf of my soon-to-be Mother-in-Law (who doesn't "get" eBay).
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The mother-in-law is an eavesdropper and troublemaker but has nothing to do with this story.
Peeling Onions
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Lucrezia often referred to her mother-in-law as Saint Contessina as a result.
The Poet Prince
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I'd like to think this is Hector and Andromache, but we know from Euripedes that she made it out of Troy alive (carried out, kicking and screaming, on the shoulder of some Greek warrior), along with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, Hecuba and Cassandra.
Lance Mannion:
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The mother-in-law had a terrible accident as I was driving her home. She fell off the roof rack.
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his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him
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My mother-in-law has been staying with us this past week and she's driving me crazy.
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No one spoke as we viewed the envelope holding five maples, eight taxus, six evergreens, two ash, four locust, 109 living rose hedge plants, two flowering mother-in-law tongues, and a grove of fifteen assorted, colorful fruit trees.
The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank
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The problem hit home to me early last year as my wife, my mother-in-law and I caught a taxi home from a party in a Bristol city-centre hotel.
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Mother-in-law
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Write a generous letter of reply, with interesting memories of mother-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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And is it better to have one sane and one mad mother/mother-in-law, or is better that they are both equally just slightly dotty?
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EVER, I reply, giving a typical belle-fille* response to her belle-mère, though it is entirely unnecessary in view of our unusual daughter-in-law/mother-in-law complicité.
Mother-in-law
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Another popular plant is the dieffenbachia, or mother-in-law plant, which has large, oblong leaves painted with light white splotches.
250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You
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Perhaps it's something to do with a potential meeting with his future mother-in-law this weekend.
The Sun
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I benefited because my husband always came first with me and because my mother-in-law became a good friend in letting me know her son's likes and dislikes.
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At some point in the last year, my lovely mother-in-law gave me a kit for growing Indian cooking herbs - fenugreek, coriander and cumin.
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her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her
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I have known her since she was a mite, with a fat, solemn dumpling of a face … Her parents are of the good old conservative type, not believing in overmuch book-knowledge for a girl, and with an eye to a good husband and mother-in-law for the child.
CHINA
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Her mother-in-law poisoned the ears of her son with all sorts of stories.
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Caroline looked beautiful and stole the show but she was nearly upstaged by the hat worn by her future mother-in-law Kate Loughran.
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I love chocolate and I love my mother-in-law, but this cake is so thick and rich it should be loaded into helicopters and used to smother oil well fires.
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HEARD the one about the mother-in-law card?
The Sun
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Instead of heading downtown to the erotic lingerie store where your pastor or mother-in-law might see you, why not try shopping for lingerie online?
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My mother-in-law died a few years back from a brain aneurism.
Poll: Obama drops on health care
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But Salahi said he was suspicious and called his mother-in-law, who told him she hadn't spoken with Michaele and was unaware of her plans.
FOXNews.com
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It was otherwise with her mother-in-law, the _baronne_ Dudevant, with whom she had a passage-of-arms at the outset on the subject of her literary campaign, here disapproved _in toto_.
Famous Women: George Sand
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My wife, child and mother-in-law left Friday for the outlands of the state, leaving me and the dog to amuse ourselves in the time-honored method: staying up until 3 AM watching Star Wars with the stereo pumped up to 11.
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Imagine how much better life would be if there was a mute button on your mother-in-law, or a good cop/bad cop switch on the officer about to hand you a speeding fine, or even just a simple 'unjam' option on the office photocopier.
Worth1000.com photoshop contest listings
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Some of the men sport mother-in-law wedding hats.
Times, Sunday Times
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I thought I could score some brownie points with my mother-in-law by offering to cook dinner.
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Was the mother-in-law joke a vessel into which male frustrations could be poured?
Times, Sunday Times
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Were it not so, how could the mother-in-law joke be the virtual human universal that it is?
The Times Literary Supplement
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He said he comes to bingo every week with his wife, mum and mother-in-law and often brings a group of his mates along as well.
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she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law
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Aurora bit her lip then and called her mother-in-law, who immediately freaked out when she heard her son hadn’t come home.
Unpretty
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She had to live in a small apartment with a mother-in-law who was besotted with her son and loathed her as a rival, as well as living with a brilliant young husband who turned out to be self-obsessed and a drunk.
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He now lives on a permanent disability pension with his wife, their two children and his mother-in-law.
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I've been meaning to make handvo with the lote my mother-in-law sent, and now your post is egging me on!
Weekend Lunch Series: Spinach-Zucchini Handvoh
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Did I mention that my mother-in-law is a professional chef and also doesn't speak a word of English?
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This intrigues me – I've never thought of putting anything other than parmesan into a beef lasagne before well, OK, my sister's mother-in-law makes a fabulous lasagne topped with lots of lovely Scottish cheddar, but apart from that, so I do some research on Italian-American lasagne, and one name keeps recurring: Lidia Bastianich, a chef born in Istria, who emigrated to the States in the late 1950s.
How to cook perfect lasagne
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Other facts are not so clear-cut and I had to make choices: he may or may not have lived in the house of his mother-in-law (I decided he did); he converted to Catholicism at the time of his marriage but not necessarily because Catharina was Catholic
An interview with Tracy Chevalier about Girl With A Pearl Earring
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He also gives the subsidiary characters - a dim married couple and a meddlesome mother-in-law - meaty roles whose farce is grounded in wry truth.
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At least he's moved on and escaped the clutches of the mother-in-law from hell.
The Sun
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One scene Jason repeatedly mentioned was that when abdominal fluid was being taken from his mother-in-law, the needle fell out of her abdomen onto the bed, and the doctor just reinserted it without taking any disinfection measures.
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Eleanor would later blame her mother-in-law for her husband'sfrequent absences.
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I still have seeds left and will plant more when the space becomes available - any garden-growable and edible food stuff will be eaten in our house I lie - don't tell her, but I won't eat the radishes my mother-in-law planted for me.
Salsola
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My mother-in-law has been staying with us this past week and she's driving me crazy.
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Arleen Stern, a geriatric-care manager in New York, spent four months with her family emptying her mother-in-law's apartment after she died.
The Pearls Are Mine!
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December 9th, 2009 TIGER WOODS 'mother-in-law has been expelled from a Florida sanatorium following treatment for "stomach discomfort".
Woods Mistress Apologises To Wife
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With consummate courtesy Alex got rid of his future mother-in-law, in record time.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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Maybe you told your mother-in-law that you love her stuffed cabbage casserole and you're just dying to tell someone what kind of dreck it really was.
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An armed robber was caught in the act as he tried to hold up a shop where his former mother-in-law worked.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps your future mother-in-law thinks deep down you'd like to have family there.
The Sun
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Poor Ann has the mother-in-law from hell.
