Big Mother
n.— «In their collective stead, we got the Live Aid concerts, an always exciting and sometimes worrying spectacle that shrunk the globe to an altruistic village ruled by a benign Big Mother.» —“North of the border, the tube’s glow was much brighter” by Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) Dec. 28, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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