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

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語短語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "源自母亲本能地爱自己的后代的说法。",
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "非常难看的，非常恶心的，非常讨厌的"
      ],
      "id": "zh-only_a_mother_could_love-en-phrase-4C9ilNrf"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "only a mother could love"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "英語短語",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "源自母亲本能地爱自己的后代的说法。",
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "非常难看的，非常恶心的，非常讨厌的"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "only a mother could love"
}