at your mother's knee

at (one's) mother's knee

From one's mother, typically when one was a child. I learned how to bake at my mother's knee when I was just a girl.
See also: knee
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

at your mother's (or father's) knee

at an early age.
See also: knee
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at your ˌmother’s ˈknee

when you were very young: I learnt these songs at my mother’s knee.
See also: knee
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See also:
  • at (one's) mother's knee
  • at (one's) knee
  • take a knee
  • put (someone) over (one's) knee
  • down on one knee
  • knee biter
  • knee
  • knee-high to a duck
  • knee-high to a jackrabbit
  • knee-jerk
References in classic literature
Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago?"
Tale Of Two Cities
Adobo is not the name of the dish but the process of marinating and stewing meat and fowl in vinegar ('adobado') to flavor and preserve before it is seasoned with garlic, peppercorns, bay leaf, and depending on the recipe you learned at your mother's knee, onion and soy sauce.
Encounter of two worlds
At the White House, President Clinton said: "You all learned at your mother's knee that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Dunblane mums storm Capitol
Ethics is something you learn at your mother's knee, in kindergarten and Sunday school.
Lesson in ethics? (a retired general's lavish lifestyle and pension should disqualify him from candidacy as an instructor in an ethics course)