Mrs Miggins

English

Proper noun

Mrs Miggins

1. (British) Any ordinary woman, especially an older woman.

   I doubt that Mrs Miggins on the number 32 bus cares much about the plight of the yellow woodlouse.

   • 2007 June 4, “Don't Blame Mrs Miggins”, in New Statesman:

     Instead, this government seems to see a Britain stymied by local vested interests, where our whole economic future is called into question because Mrs Miggins doesn't want a motorway through her back garden, or a nuclear power station built next door.

   • 2017, Jeremy Clarkson, quoted in The Sun newspaper, 7th July 2017. [1]

     Volvo going electric will have the same effect as Mrs Miggins turning down the heating in her front room.