father

at your father's knee: see at your mother's knee atknee.

founding father: seefounding.

how's your father sexual intercourse. British informal euphemistic, dated

☞ A pre-World War I music-hall catchphrase, how's your father was earlier used to mean 'nonsense' before acquiring its later sexual sense. It is used also to refer to a man's penis.

like father, like son a son's character or behaviour can be expected to resemble that of his father.

☞ The Latin version of this expression is qualis pater, talis filius. The female equivalent, like mother, like daughter, is based on Ezekiel 16:44: 'Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is the daughter'.

词组	father
释义	father at your father's knee: see at your mother's knee atknee. founding father: seefounding. how's your father sexual intercourse. British informal euphemistic, dated ☞ A pre-World War I music-hall catchphrase, how's your father was earlier used to mean 'nonsense' before acquiring its later sexual sense. It is used also to refer to a man's penis. like father, like son a son's character or behaviour can be expected to resemble that of his father. ☞ The Latin version of this expression is qualis pater, talis filius. The female equivalent, like mother, like daughter, is based on Ezekiel 16:44: 'Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is the daughter'.
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