Sentences with phrase «like mother hen»

Publisher's Weekly is another story, and I can only cluck my tongue like a mother hen.

«I am proud like a mother hen,» Guadagnino told Vanity Fair at a celebration co-hosted by Editor - in - Chief Radhika Jones and Barneys New York C.E.O. Daniella Vitale.

I'm just stand in the middle of the surf like a mother hen, counting her chicks every few moments to make sure they are all in reach lest they get knocked over by a wave or get distracted and chase a sea gull too far down the beach.

However, this trend is massively exacerbated by this softy «I love all my boys like a Mother Hen» type manager, who constantly makes excuses for them and deflects rightful criticism, in case it should offend their delicate ears.

Danny is as garrulous as Michael is quiet, and he clucks over his protègè like a mother hen.

They turned out like a mother hen on an egg flat platter men trying to push a kid down a hill on a tricycle.

I would wake up in the middle of the night and He was there, like a mother hen.

Not exact matches

That's like expecting a chick to hatch out of an egg before the mother hen even starts sitting on it... won't work.

Anyone who has ever incurred the wrath of an old mother hen by threatening her brood can testify to the fact that Jesus was probably speaking like an «over-zealous,» «overprotective» «Jewish» mama here.

She spoke words like a nurturing mother hen, none that I can remember now, but were meant to soothe.

I am not sure how old you are... so I hate to sound like an old mother hen because we might be the same age, but take it from someone who has three kiddos... They don't always listen.

But down the road, once you've come to appreciate the editing process and how the editing process led to an end product you're genuinely proud of, you'll realize your editor was essential — and that it was sort of like having a dentist, project manager, magician, and mother hen on your side.