son
son horny-handed son of toil a labourer. The phrase was originally coined by the Conservative statesman Lord Salisbury in 1873. The expression was popularized in the US by Denis Kearney (1847–1907).
my son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life proverbial saying, late 17th century; meaning that while a man who establishes his own family relegates former blood ties to second place, a woman's filial role is not affected by her marriage.
son of a gun a jocular or affectionate way of addressing or referring to someone (with reference to the guns carried aboard ships: the epithet is said to have been applied originally to babies born at sea to women allowed to accompany their husbands).
Son of Heaven a title given to the Emperor of China, translating Chinese tiānzǐ.
Son of Man a title of Jesus Christ, as in Matthew 8:20.
See also like father, like son, sons.
my son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life proverbial saying, late 17th century; meaning that while a man who establishes his own family relegates former blood ties to second place, a woman's filial role is not affected by her marriage.
son of a gun a jocular or affectionate way of addressing or referring to someone (with reference to the guns carried aboard ships: the epithet is said to have been applied originally to babies born at sea to women allowed to accompany their husbands).
Son of Heaven a title given to the Emperor of China, translating Chinese tiānzǐ.
Son of Man a title of Jesus Christ, as in Matthew 8:20.
See also like father, like son, sons.
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