only a mother could love

英語

詞源

源自母親本能地愛自己的後代的說法。

短語

only a mother could love

1. 非常難看的，非常噁心的，非常討厭的
   • 1995, Nancy Pickard, Confession，頁號 5:

     There was an interesting face beneath the spots, I thought as I looked at him, but at the moment at which fate rang our doorbell it was still a face only a mother could love, which was a problem for the boy on our doorstep.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2009, Tyler R. Tichelaar, The Only Thing That Lasts，頁號 164:

     Mark was someone only a mother could love—but I did feel sorry for his mother.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2013, Lori Duron ·, Raising My Rainbow:

     Sometimes, when he does something that only a mother could love, I get scared.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2016, Amy Newmark, Chicken Soup for the Soul:

     It was a wreath only a mother could love.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2019, Ian Brennan, Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth:

     It was a song that only a mother could love.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:

     The resulting animal, it was said, was one only a mother could love.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）