mother hen

He's a good guy but a bit of a mother hen.

He was acting like a mother hen because of her.

"The only thing that can sit better than me is a mother hen," he says.

Or with an entire ship full of people to look after, was he just being a mother hen?

Stop acting like a mother hen, and let your people do their jobs.

"Which now leaves just you for this mother hen to worry about."

All we are this moment is mother hens, sitting on our eggs.

Above all, they hovered over them like a mother hen.

"I don't want to act like a mother hen," David later said.

"You're the one who watches over everybody like a mother hen."

There is no need to fuss over me like a mother hen.

Until then, the best thing to do was get on with her work and stop behaving like a mother hen.

Mother hen and her chicks then walk in a line past Tom.

In a moment the mother hen appeared with her chicks.

"Shouldn't you be playing mother hen with your royal charges?"

She reminded him of an old mother hen waiting up for a kid on the first date.

"Can't even come out here for a smoke without you hovering over me like a mother hen!"

At least he wasn't looking at me like an old mother hen.

I was amazed: she stuck up for me like a real old mother hen.

To him, she was someone he could mother hen over, and he often did.

Same routine, led like chicks behind a blue mother hen.

The mother hen then slams a bucket onto Tom's head.

And she watched over them with the keen eye of a mother hen, even from the distance her new position required.

He still worried, like the old mother hen Picard had once called him.

He still checked on her like a mother hen.