| 单词 | mother's knee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother's knee mother's knee n. the lap of one's mother, considered as a place of learning in infancy or as a place of safety and comfort; chiefly in to learn at one's mother's knee. ΚΠ 1805 R. Southey Madoc in Aztlan v The very mother-language which I learnt, A lisping baby on mother's knees.] 1843 C. F. Hoffman Wild Scenes II. 83 The religion learned at a mother's knee. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 110 The big city is like a mother's knee to many who have strayed far and found the roads rough beneath their uncertain feet. 1992 World (BBC) Apr. 11 Raghubir Singh, an Indian photographer with an international reputation, has had a passion for the Ganga—the River Ganges to non-Indians—since he learned of its sacred qualities at his mother's knee. 2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 30 Oct. Hill..is a hands-on cook. It was not an art he learned at his mother's knee. < as lemmas |
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