take to it like a duck to water, to
take to it like a duck to water, to
To 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
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- slow as (slower than) molasses (in January)
- cold shoulder, to give/show the
- fighting mad
- end of the world, it's not/wouldn't be the
- live like a prince, to
- go(ing) to town
- have a weakness for
- have a weakness for (someone or something)
- weakness
- crazy as a coot/loon