老ろう婆ば心しん切せつ

noun

grandmotherly solicitude; excessive solicitude

A yojijukugo expressing well-meaning but sometimes overbearing concern, like that of a grandmother. Often used self-deprecatingly when giving advice.

• 老ろう婆ば心しん切せつながら一ひと言こと申もうし上あげます。

  At the risk of being meddlesome, let me say one thing.

• それは老ろう婆ば心しん切せつというものですよ。

  That's what you'd call excessive solicitude.