Mother of all Budgets

English

Etymology

Coined by New Zealand journalist David Cohen in 1991, in reference to Saddam Hussein's use of mother of all.

Proper noun

the Mother of all Budgets

  1. (New Zealand politics) The 1991 New Zealand budget delivered by Minister of Finance Ruth Richardson.

See also

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