‘The shop was staffed initially by her five children, who all learned the business and a service mentality at their mother's knee.’
‘I remember listening to his distinctive, gravelly voice as a child at my father's knee.’
‘But Alessi did not learn his trade at his mother's knee in Malta (although he fondly remembers the fabulous Maltese speciality, cheesecake-like pies called pastizzi).’
‘Grant's heroine, Alix Rebick, is the inheritor of a Dresden cosmetics fortune who has spent years at her mother's knee, learning the complicated feminine rituals of beautification.’
‘The ethics we practice are those that we learned at our mother's knee, so we think they are good.’
‘He learned his politics at his mother's knee.’
‘Born in 1886 and groomed to lead the enterprise, Archie Bray had learned brickmaking at his father's knee, there absorbing the nineteenth-century practices of molding and ‘burning’ brick.’
‘Oliver, who is 27, learnt to cook at his father's knee - his parents ran a pub - and he wanted to be a chef from an early age.’
‘His love and knowledge of wine started literally at his father's knee.’
‘When I was being taught the basic values at my mother's knee I got some valuable lessons.’
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