Meaning of mother's little helper | Babel Free

Definitions

A tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.

euphemistic, slang

Examples

“Bored with the emptiness of her life, she was said to be increasingly turning to the consolations of “mother's little helper”—new lines of tranquilizing drugs, such as Librium and Miltown, meant to soothe the female anxieties that Betty Friedan decried in her bestselling The Feminine Mystique.”

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