You need the patience of Mother Teresa to teach young children.
patience of Mother Teresa
idiomA great deal of patience.
Dealing with these constant technical delays requires the patience of Mother Teresa.
Only a mentor with the patience of Mother Teresa could guide such a difficult student through the complexities of the final thesis.
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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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be mother
To pour out tea for others.
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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 a saint
Synonym of patience of an angel.