Idiom
Mother Hubbard
Meaning
Empty.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I looked in the fridge, but it was Mother Hubbard.”
“We wanted to make dinner, but the pantry was Mother Hubbard, so we had to order pizza.”
“Upon opening the cupboards to prepare a meal for his guests, he found them entirely Mother Hubbard, leaving him with no choice but to visit the market.”
Examples
simple
“I looked in the fridge, but it was Mother Hubbard.”
contextual
“We wanted to make dinner, but the pantry was Mother Hubbard, so we had to order pizza.”
complex
“Upon opening the cupboards to prepare a meal for his guests, he found them entirely Mother Hubbard, leaving him with no choice but to visit the market.”
Origin
From "Old Mother Hubbard", a nursery rhyme.
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