I will be mother and pour the tea for everyone.
be mother
idiomTo pour out tea for others.
Origin
disputed originPouring tea is traditionally the mother's role in a family setting.
As the teapot arrived at the table, she smiled and asked if she should be mother.
With a graceful gesture, she took the teapot and offered to be mother, ensuring every guest had a freshly poured cup.
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and his mother
Serves as an intensifier for an inclusive noun or phrase such as everyone, anyone, each someone or all someones.
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like mother, like daughter
A daughter takes after her mother.
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mother hen
An outspoken and overprotective woman or person dealing with others' affairs; especially, an assertive matriarch.
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Mother Hubbard
Empty.
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mother lode
Any source of valuable or useful material.
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mother of all
Used before a plural noun to form a compound noun having the sense of: the greatest or largest of (its kind); the most epic example of (its kind).
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patience of Mother Teresa
A great deal of patience.
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refrigerator mother
An emotionally frigid mother, who does not exhibit normal care or love for her child or children.