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old enough to be mother

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old enough to be someone's mother

 and old enough to be someone's father

as old as someone's parents. (Usually a way of saying that a person is too old.) You can't go out with Bill. He's old enough to be your father! He married a woman who is old enough to be his mother.

See also: enough, mother, old