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mother's little helpers

mother's little helpers is the plural of mother's little helper.

Meaning of mother's little helper

Noun

mother's little helper (plural mother's little helpers)

  1. (euphemistic, slang) A tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.
    • Bored with the emptiness of her life, she was said to be increasingly turning to the consolations of “mother's little helper”—new lines of tranquilizing drugs, such as Librium and Miltown, meant to soothe the female anxieties that Betty Friedan decried in her bestselling The Feminine Mystique.2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 58

Questions about mother's little helpers

What is mother's little helpers the plural of?
Mother's little helpers is the plural of mother's little helper.

Words near mother's little helpers in the dictionary

  1. Mother Xmases
  2. Mother's Day
  3. Mother's Days
  4. mother's line
  5. mother's little helper
  6. mother's little helpers
  7. mother's mark
  8. mother's milk
  9. Mother's Night
  10. mother's ruin
  11. mother-bird

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