the mother of all

idiom

—used to say that something is larger, better, worse, etc., than all other things of the same kind

It has been described as the mother of all construction projects.

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And that’s even before Donald Trump returning to the White House to unleash the mother of all trade wars. —

William Pesek, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024 One Wilshire is the mother of all data centers in the West, a discreet terminus for major digital links between Asia and North America that help sustain the world’s bottomless need for data storage and computing power. —

Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024 But its expiry brought the mother of all lockouts, when the owners dug in on their demands for a hard-cap system. —

Carol Schram, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 This step rolls up under the mother of all organizing principles: Store like with like. —

Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the mother of all

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