mother's darling
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Gerry, his mother’s darling, owns a nearby tavern and has lived at home since an unspecified tragedy related to Sept.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2012
Perhaps you do," jeered Davy Jones, who could take hard knocks without any whimper; "but mother's darling boy ain't home right now.
From The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol by Herbert Carter
As a child she had played the misunderstood genius or shy mother's darling as occasion demanded; she had posed with others till she was unable to do anything but pose with herself.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
You mean that knockkneed mother's darling who seems to be slightly crawsick?
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Watch any fair flock of children in which there may be one blighted bud, and you will see that that blighted one is the mother's darling.
From The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope
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