mama's boy
Example Sentences
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He’s got a frat-boy face and a mama’s-boy demeanor.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019
That kiss will change lives: those of Kim; her family; her boyfriend; Conrad’s mama’s-boy manager, Albert; and Albert’s long-suffering girlfriend, Rose.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2016
At first they were traditional gangsters marked by a new streak of sadism and neuroticism, embodied by James Cagney’s mama’s-boy train robber in Raoul Walsh’s 1949 “White Heat.”
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2011
Classic Hitchcock in skeletal form: the setting of Rear Window; the mama's-boy murderer from Strangers on a Train; and even a fashionable switch of identities from Vertigo and Marnie.
From Time Magazine Archive
