| 单词 | to suck in with one's mother's milk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto suck in with one's mother's milk 1. The milk of a mother. Frequently to suck in with one's mother's milk: (in figurative contexts) to learn or absorb something at an early age; cf. to suck in 2 at suck v. Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > mother's milk mother-milka1425 mother's milk?a1513 breast milk1579 suck1584 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 107 My clype, my vnspaynit gyane, With moderis mylk ȝit in ȝour mychane. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. xxx. 40 The earth squeezes the poor wretch so hard, that his Mothers milk comes running out at his nose. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. v. 48 If they had suckt in the Whimsie from the Bigg with their Mother's Milk. 1847 G. P. R. James Convict II. 50 His auditor..had sucked in such doctrines with his mother's milk. 1922 G. M. Trevelyan Brit. Hist. 19th Cent. xxiii. 363 Britons had sucked in fear of Napoleonic conquest with their mother's milk. 1972 Guardian 22 Aug. 4/6 A six-month-old-baby..is being kept alive by mother's milk supplied by volunteers. 1997 N.Y. Times 20 Aug. a20/4 Money may be the mother's milk of politics, but until our leaders learn to wean themselves from it, they will continue to be childish politicians, not mature statesmen. < as lemmas |
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