Are you familiar with the phrase “The Mother of all X”. It turned out to be both more recent and more ancient than I would have expected.
More recent: it entered English through a translation of a speech by Saddam Hussein warning against what would become the First Gulf War saying “Let everyone understand that this battle is going to become the mother of all battles."
More ancient: it’s apparently a direct translation of an idiom that’s been in Arabic since the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah in 636 AD.
More recent: it entered English through a translation of a speech by Saddam Hussein warning against what would become the First Gulf War saying “Let everyone understand that this battle is going to become the mother of all battles."
More ancient: it’s apparently a direct translation of an idiom that’s been in Arabic since the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah in 636 AD.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
