at your mother's knee

Definition

› If you learned something at your mother's knee, you learned it when you were a child: I learned to sew at my mother's knee.Describing people who are young

You are looking at an entry to do with Describing people who are young, but you might be interested in these topics from the Time topic area:

Synonyms and related words:

to express disagreement or refuse to do something

Read our blog about how the English language behaves.

Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.