| 释义 |
take to it like a duck to water, to take to it like a duck to water, toTo find a special affinity for it; to try something and like it. This rather obvious simile dates only from the late nineteenth century. Sir John Astley used it in his memoirs (Fifty Years of My Life, 1894): “I always took to shooting like a duck to water.”See also: duck, like, take |