He's a good guy but a bit of a mother hen.
Or with an entire ship full of people to look after, was he just being a mother hen?
He was acting like a mother hen because of her.
Stop acting like a mother hen, and let your people do their jobs.
"The only thing that can sit better than me is a mother hen," he says.
"Which now leaves just you for this mother hen to worry about."
All we are this moment is mother hens, sitting on our eggs.
"I don't want to act like a mother hen," David later said.
"You're the one who watches over everybody like a mother hen."
Above all, they hovered over them like a mother hen.