take to sth like a duck to water
informalto discover when you start to do something for the first time that you have a natural ability to do it:
He took to fatherhood like a duck to water.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Experienced
- a man/woman of the world idiom
- cosmopolitan
- duck
- experienced
- grandmother
- leading hand
- old-timer
- pedigreed
- practised
- ridge
- sea dog
- seasoned
- sophisticated
- sophistication
- teach your grandmother to suck eggs idiom
- urbane
- veteran
- warhorse
- world
- worldly
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