mothers' meeting
(also mother's meeting)
noun
1A regular meeting of mothers connected with a parish or congregation, for the purpose of receiving instruction and advice, or for social contact.
2 Informal (in extended use, with humorous overtones) a gathering of people in (prolonged) conversation together.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Charlotte Yonge (1823–1901), novelist.
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- (from) hand to mouth
- from head to toe (or foot)
- from hence
- from hero to zero
- fromm
- from memory
- Fromm, Erich
- from nature
- from now (or then etc.) on
- from on high
- from (or out of) nowhere
- from overseas
- from pillar to post
- (from) rags to riches
- from scratch
- from side to side
- unredacted
- unrede
- unredeemable
- unredeemed
- unredeemedly
- unredeeming
- unredressable
- unredressed