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С (ОТ) ПЕЛЁНОК coll С (ОТ) ПЕЛЕНА С (ОТ) КОЛЫБЕЛИ lit PrepP these forms only adv

from an extremely early age

from the cradle

from the day one was born from one's (very) infancy from one's earliest childhood while still in diapers.

Идеология вдалбливалась в нас с пелёнок. Некоторые в нее поверили искренне. Другие относились, как к религии, со смесью веры и сомнения... (Войнович 1). Ideology was drummed into our heads from the day we were born Some of us were sincere in our beliefs. Others approached ideology with a mixture of belief and doubt, the way people approach religion... (1a).

«Я спрашиваю: о чем люди - с самых пеленок - молились, мечтали, мучились?» (Замятин 1). "I ask you: what did people-from their very infancy-pray for, dream about, long for?" (1a)

Коля был сыном известного мелюзеевского часовщика. В Мелюзееве его знали с пеленок (Пастернак 1). Kolia, the son of a well-known Meliuzeievo clockmaker, had been a familiar figure in Meliuzeievo from his earliest childhood (1a).