| 单词 | mother's little helper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother's little helper mother's little helper n. slang a tranquillizer. ΚΠ 1966 M. Jagger & K. Richard (song, perf. ‘The Rolling Stones’) 1 I hear every mother say ‘Mother needs something today to calm her down.’ And tho' she's not really ill, there's a little yellow pill; she goes runnin' for the shelter of her mother's little helper. 1985 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Jan. For many ‘mother's little helper’—tranquillisers—are the only way to blot out the daily suffering. 1993 Daily Tel. 9 Nov. 18 At the outset Valium—‘mother's little helper’—and its stablemates appeared to cause few problems, yet in time distressing withdrawal symptoms were experienced. 2000 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Nov. (Society section) 11 Jenner, now 72 and retired, should therefore perhaps be glowing with pride in his farmhouse near Sheffield, after playing his part in the creation of the drug [sc. Valium], known affectionately as ‘mother's little helper’. < as lemmas |
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