Mrs Miggins

I doubt that Mrs Miggins on the number 32 bus cares much about the plight of the yellow woodlouse.

Many were the high expectations entertained by fond parents, of the rapid progress which their darlings would make, when placed under the tuition of the young man from college, that would teach without whipping, "Old man," said Mrs. Miggins (as I heard) to her husband, a sturdy farmer, "old man, our Jack is a mighty smart boy: I saw him the other day, when he wanted some cake go to the cupboard, take a long stick, pull it down on the floor, and then taking it up, he ran to me and cried out, 'Goodness, mother, look here what a piece of cake I found on the floor; may'nt I have it?' He is a mighty clever boy, and neighbor Johnson's son will teach him every thing that's smart."

1849 February, “The ‘Moral Suasion’ Theory”, in The University Magazine, volume I, number 2, Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, →OCLC, pages 53–54

You can do nothing Evangelical without a tea-meeting. […] Mrs. Griggs and Mrs. Miggins are ready with their donation to your subscription list, but you must give them the opportunity of drinking Bohea in public before they will disburse.

1873, Iota [pseudonym; John Francis Waller], “Hatchley Colne”, in The Adventures of a Protestant in Search of a Religion, London: R. Washbourne, […], →OCLC, page 192

It's all very well trusting users, but what happens if Mrs. Miggins brings in a floppy disk from home with some code on it written by her son.

2003, Nigel Stanley, “Scalability and Security”, in Microsoft .NET Jumpstart for Systems Administrators and Developers, Burlington, Mass.: Digital Press, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, page 150

Instead, this government seems to see a Britain stymied by local vested interests, where our whole economic future is called into question because Mrs Miggins doesn't want a motorway through her back garden, or a nuclear power station built next door. […] Its solution is to cut Mrs Miggins – and anyone else who wants a say in what happens in their local neighbourhood – out of the process. Instead, big decisions will be taken by an appointed panel of "experts".

2007 June 4, Mark Lynas, “Don’t Blame Mrs Miggins”, in New Statesman, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2011