Re: Mothers and manners - idiom? "A woman of no Importance" by Oscar Wilde, 2nd act:
LADY CAROLINE: There are a great many things you haven´t got in America, I am told, Miss Worsley. They say you have no ruins, and no curiosities.
MRS ALLONBY [to LADY STUTFIELD]: What nonsense! They have their mothers and their manners.
"mothers", can it be a synonymous of "origins"?
Thank you for your help.
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