Mother of Parliaments
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Mother of Parliaments
C19: first used of England in 1865 by John Bright (1811–89), British Liberal statesman
Example Sentences
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Nor are stable and effective minority governments unknown in Commonwealth countries that can trace their parliamentary and governance systems back to "the Mother of Parliaments" in Westminster.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2015
This reverence for heritage is amplified by that often mis-applied phrase, The Mother of Parliaments.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2015
She carried Their Majesties Christian & Alexandrine, King & Queen of Denmark & Iceland, who had come to open amid international jubilation and with Icelandic pomp the "Mother of Parliaments" on her 1,000th birthday.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mother of Parliaments, majestic but not stuffy, had one of her stormiest, most boisterous weeks in recent history.
From Time Magazine Archive
As it is, the Mother of Parliaments remains with some of her halls a little patchy in decoration; some of them, indeed, a good deal ugly.
From England by Fox, Frank, Sir
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