at your mother's knee
literaryIf you learned something at your mother's knee, you learned it when you were a child:
I learned to sew at my mother's knee.
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Describing people who are young
- adolescent
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- flower
- fresh-faced
- in the flower of sb's youth idiom
- juvenile
- little
- mother
- prepubescent
- pubescent
- slip
- small
- teen
- teenager
- time
- underage
- yoof
- young
- youthful
- yute
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