Mother Hubbard | Idiomator

Meaning: (fashion)Along,wide,loosegownwithlongsleevesand ahighneckoriginallyintroducedbyChristianmissionariesas anadaptationof19th-centuryEuropeanfashiontoPolynesiabutsubsequentlyinclusiveoflighterandmorecolorfulvariations.1919,W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, inThe Moon and Sixpence,[New York, N.Y.]:Grosset & Dunlap Publishers[…],→OCLC:Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin. I do not know how many of them there were. They fell away voluminously into the capaciousness of her bosom. She was dressed usually in a pinkMother Hubbard, and she wore all day long a large straw hat.

Examples:

EN: No, no, the last time I went shopping with you, I wound up in a cut-price Mother Hubbard.
ES: La última vez que fui, volví con los calzones mal tallados.
EN: Well, you won't end up in a Mother Hubbard today.
ES: Hoy no te haré comprar calzones.
EN: Call up Mother Hubbard.
ES: Llame a su ama de llaves.
EN: Mother Hubbard goes down into her cupboard.
ES: - Mamá oca busca en su despensa.
EN: With a Mother Hubbard.
ES: ¿Dando brincos?
EN: All right, get out, Mother Hubbard.
ES: Vamos, salga ya.
EN: Old Mother Hubbard has something in the cupboard.
ES: Tengo algo que te puede interesar.
EN: - In a Mother Hubbard?
ES: - ¿Con un vestido polinesio?
EN: Do you remember the story about Mother Hubbard?
ES: ¿Recuerdas la historia de la Madre Hubbard?
EN: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard.
ES: La Vieja Madre Hubbard fue a la despensa.
EN: Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard, eh? Ha! Woof, woof!
ES: La despensa de la Vieja Madre Hubbard, eh?
EN: What did Mother Hubbard's dog do?
ES: ¿Qué hacía el perro de la vieja Mother Hubbard?
EN: I want my chiffon Mother Hubbard lined with Hudson Bay rat
ES: Quiero mis listones y mis lazos revestidos con piel de león
EN: Well, good morning, Mother Hubbard.
ES: Vaya, buenos días, Señora Hacendosa.
EN: Don't wind up a Mother Hubbard, with a bunch of kids hollering in your ear!
ES: No acabes con muchos niños gritándote "mamá" al oído.

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