All this trouble for lack of mother wit to tell him when to wait.

"Guildenstern hasn't the mother wit to expect much."

Representative Hutchinson took the dialect cue and began another question with "Let's put it in the realm of mother wit."

Some boxers possess an uncommon mother wit, rooted perhaps in their basic profession.

It is extempore, from my mother wit.

There are more good thoughts, fine strokes, and mother wit in them than I hear in the whole week.

I've got a certain mother wit.

Listen to me, it take a long, long time to develop mother wit.

This faculty is therefore the specific quality of the so-called mother wit, the want of which no scholastic discipline can compensate.