mother wit

All this trouble for lack of mother wit to tell him when to wait.'

Listen to me, it take a long, long time to develop mother wit."

There are more good thoughts, fine strokes, and mother wit in them than I hear in the whole week."

Some boxers possess an uncommon mother wit, rooted perhaps in their basic profession.

It is extempore, from my mother wit.

I've got a certain mother wit.

Representative Hutchinson took the dialect cue and began another question with "Let's put it in the realm of mother wit."

This faculty is therefore the specific quality of the so-called mother wit, the want of which no scholastic discipline can compensate.

Quick in her mother wit.

"Guildenstern hasn't the mother wit to expect much."

He was a 'mother wit man,' with innate knowledge about things like tempo, theory, harmony.

The truth is that the same mother wit that has amused and beguiled so many is probably what's gotten him this far as a fighter.

Mother wit with its connotation of collective wisdom acquired by the experience of living and from generations past is often expressed in folklore."

Mother Wit (1988)

"Well," he concluded, "you need figures to take a reckoning, and you need nothing else save what your mother wit will teach you.

The majority will thus be always unable to afford it, and will base their opinions on mother wit and current opinion rather than on demonstration.

She was pleased to note that Dennis had had enough mother wit to leave the old walrus to it, and come home and get some sleep.

'When you have to live by your mother wit, old boy, I hope you may get on better than I do.'

This impulse is very different from the gutbucket consciousness of remaining in touch with the spit, grit and mother wit of the sidewalk.

As long as wit is mother wit it can be as wild as it pleases.

That was the time Seyavi learned the sufficiency of mother wit, and how much more easily one can do without a man than might at first be supposed.

In 1988, Wright made history as the first black female artist to score a gold album on her label when the album, Mother Wit, was released.

If so, use your mother wit, girl; beware of Maldon, look to yourself, and as for your mother's jewels, hide them," and he turned to go.

Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore.