"Mother-in-law" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 pó grandmother / matron / mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
 ā pó granny / mother-in-law
 zhàng mǔ wife's mother / mother-in-law
 tài shuǐ (literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother
 jiā pó (dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
 zhàng mǔ niáng wife's mother / mother-in-law / same as 丈母
 yuè mǔ wife's mother, mother-in-law
 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
 hǔ wěi lán snake plant aka mother-in-law's tongue (Dracaena trifasciata)
 xí fù áo chéng pó lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around
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