mother-in-law:

The mother of one's wife or husband .

QUOTE: The boss (Oscar Apfec) and Ambrose (W.C. Fields) The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935):
-- The boss, Mr. Mallory: ' It must be hard to lose your mother-in-law .'
-- Ambrose Wolfinger: ' Yes, it is. Very hard. Almost impossible in fact .'

See Also: bachelor-mother, in-law, instant mum, long-term relationship, married country style, momism, mother-in-law, novercaphobia, old and bitter, soceraphobia

Quotes Containing mother-in-law:
''That''s Henry''s mother , the black sheep of the family . She took so many strokes in the Sixties they called her the U.S. Open.'' Kitty (Catherine Zeta Jones) about her future mother-in-law Duchess Lucinda (Barbara Hershey) in Splitting Heirs (1993)
''That''s Henry''s mother , the black sheep of the family . She took so many strokes in the Sixties they called her the U.S. Open.'' Kitty (Catherine Zeta Jones) about her future mother-in-law Duchess Lucinda (Barbara Hershey) in Splitting Heirs (1993)

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