"only a mother could love" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [英语]

Etymology: 源自母亲本能地爱自己的后代的说法。
  1. 非常难看的,非常恶心的,非常讨厌的
    Sense id: zh-only_a_mother_could_love-en-phrase-4C9ilNrf Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語引文翻譯請求
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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        {
          "ref": "1995, Nancy Pickard, Confession,頁號 5:",
          "text": "There was an interesting face beneath the spots, I thought as I looked at him, but at the moment at which fate rang our doorbell it was still a face only a mother could love, which was a problem for the boy on our doorstep."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Tyler R. Tichelaar, The Only Thing That Lasts,頁號 164:",
          "text": "Mark was someone only a mother could love—but I did feel sorry for his mother."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Lori Duron ·, Raising My Rainbow:",
          "text": "Sometimes, when he does something that only a mother could love, I get scared."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Amy Newmark, Chicken Soup for the Soul:",
          "text": "It was a wreath only a mother could love."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Ian Brennan, Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth:",
          "text": "It was a song that only a mother could love."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:",
          "text": "The resulting animal, it was said, was one only a mother could love."
        }
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          "text": "There was an interesting face beneath the spots, I thought as I looked at him, but at the moment at which fate rang our doorbell it was still a face only a mother could love, which was a problem for the boy on our doorstep."
        },
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          "ref": "2009, Tyler R. Tichelaar, The Only Thing That Lasts,頁號 164:",
          "text": "Mark was someone only a mother could love—but I did feel sorry for his mother."
        },
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          "ref": "2013, Lori Duron ·, Raising My Rainbow:",
          "text": "Sometimes, when he does something that only a mother could love, I get scared."
        },
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          "ref": "2016, Amy Newmark, Chicken Soup for the Soul:",
          "text": "It was a wreath only a mother could love."
        },
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          "ref": "2019, Ian Brennan, Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth:",
          "text": "It was a song that only a mother could love."
        },
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          "ref": "2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:",
          "text": "The resulting animal, it was said, was one only a mother could love."
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