mother wit
Example Sentences
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Gault eventually got there, reclaiming a bit of her mom's "mother wit."
From Salon • May 16, 2021
She was using her mother wit for a bargain, and my job was to notice it.
From Slate • May 9, 2019
He was in there, whispering to people he knew well – Dick Schaap, Howard Cosell, Dave Anderson, Bingham — the mother wit, the intelligence that no I.Q. test could ever measure.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2016
She is also typecast in these films: as a two-dimensional harridan who, through camaraderie and mother wit, finds new depth in the third dimension.
From Time Magazine Archive
She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
