Mrs Miggins
English
Proper noun
Mrs Miggins
- (Britain) Any ordinary woman, especially an older woman.
- I doubt that Mrs Miggins on the number 32 bus cares much about the plight of the yellow woodlouse.
- 2007, "Don't Blame Mrs Miggins", New Statesman, 4 June 2007.
- Instead, this government seems to see a Britain stymied by local vested interests, where our whole economic future is called into question because Mrs Miggins doesn't want a motorway through her back garden, or a nuclear power station built next door.
- 2017, Jeremy Clarkson, quoted in The Sun newspaper, 7th July 2017.
- Volvo going electric will have the same effect as Mrs Miggins turning down the heating in her front room.