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
In those moments, his concern � and sometimes his mother wit � comes blazing through and the picture takes on a life not found in safe, sane, well-calculated movies.
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
