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I think that the expression "mother of all ----" is pretty damned old. I remember reading it in one of the classics back when I was still reading the classics because I had to rather than because I wanted to.
The expression could just as easily be "the father of all ----". If English were German, it most likely would be. We refer to the motherland, German refers to the fatherland.
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