See tiger mother on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "The sense of the ambitious mother was popularized by the parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) by Amy Chua.",
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"text": "Coordinate term: wolf father"
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"ref": "1907, Elizabeth Fremantle, Comrades Two, William Heinemann, page 237:",
"text": "[…] I spent all last night on my knees, beseeching the Great Physician to hear me and heal my boy. […] but the instinct of the tiger-mother is tearing my heart to pieces […].",
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"ref": "1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking:",
"text": "When she was in her busy mood, domineering and protecting me, I used to think what a dolls' generalissimo she must have been in childhood. \"And where you're concerned,\" she would say, \"I'm a tiger-mother and a regular Fury. […]\"",
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"ref": "2005 May 8, Jane Hutchinson, “Be my baby”, in Sunday Telegraph Magazine:",
"text": "\"My sister calls us 'tiger mothers', because we're so protective,\" she says.",
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"text": "Coordinate term: eagle dad"
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"ref": "2005 May 9, J. G. Ballard, “Now parliament is just another hypermarket”, in New Statesman:",
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"ref": "2011 November 2, Anne McElvoy, “Take care, children: China's tiger cubs are on your tail”, in London Evening Standard:",
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