Mother-Daughter Trip

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#340431 Sun, 18 Mar 07 08:02 AM

Hi.

Could someone please help me with the phrase mother-daughter trip I saw in the following paragraph? Does mother refer to Roseann or Roseann's mother? Is this a common phrase? How otherwise can you use the phrase --- perhaps, Jane and her Mom made a mother-daughter trip to Hawaii, and Mother spent a lot of time tell her daughter about her teens and twenties, for example? (Roseann is going to have triplets)

Roseann and Joe both come from big Italian families, and everyone wanted to pitch in to prepare for the babies. Roseann recalls many mother-daughter trips to Babies"R"us. She was having the kind of glowing pregnancy most women dream about. But that was about to change.

Thanks ahead of time.

Hiro/ Sendai, Japan

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#340433 Sun, 18 Mar 07 08:16 AM

In this passage, it refers to Roseann and her mother going shopping together in preparation for Roseann's babies arriving. You can tell this because the previous sentence refers to her family (and Joe's) being involved in the preparations. If it meant Roseann and her daughter (an older sister to the babies), the daughter would need to be mentioned somewhere in close proximity.

Mother-daughter can be used to describe other activites than a trip. It is not an everyday expression, but it's fairly common. To my ears it sounds more American than British, but I think that's because I would tend to say "window shopping with her mum" or something similar instead.

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#340451 Sun, 18 Mar 07 09:05 AM

Thanks, Lil' Ruby Rose. A lucid explanation; so much so that I think I can use the phrase in my own essay.

By the way, you said "other activities than a trip" instead of "from a trip." I thought "than" was very American.

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#340454 Sun, 18 Mar 07 09:28 AM

Hmm. No, I'm fairly comfortable with "other things than a trip" in BrE in this context. If I were going to say it another way, I might say "other things as well as a trip" or "in addition to a trip", but I don't think I'd say "other things from a trip".

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#340457 Sun, 18 Mar 07 09:46 AM

Just found a typo in my first. Embarrassed [:$]

--- perhaps, Jane and her Mom made a mother-daughter trip to Hawaii, and Mother spent a lot of time telling her daughter about days in her teens and twenties, for example?

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#340458 Sun, 18 Mar 07 09:52 AM

Oooops, my bad. Embarrassed [:$] I was somehow thinking of "different than" and "different from." Yup, you are quite along with what I feel about "other than." My brain has not been provided with enough oxygen yet today.

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