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at your mother's knee

if you learned to do something at your mother's knee, you learned it when you were a young child. I learned to sew at my mother's knee.

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6) "There are few crises to compare," wrote Rufus Jones in 1904, "with that which appears when the simple, childhood religion, imbibed at mother's knee and absorbed from early home and church environment, comes into collision with a scientific, solidly reasoned system . Rufus Jones and mysticism for the masses (1) by Hedstrom, Matthew S. / Cross Currents More results

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