Etymology

Mother of all Budgets

Today it means: The 1991 New Zealand budget delivered by the Minister of Finance Ruth Richardson. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by New Zealand journalist David Cohen in 1991, in reference to Saddam Hussein's use of mother of all.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.