впитать с молоком матери

• ВСАСЫВАТЬ/ВСОСАТЬ <ВПИТЫВАТЬ/ВПИТАТЬ и т. п.> С МОЛОКОМ МАТЕРИ что{{}}

[VP; subj: human; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]

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⇒ to learn sth. well during one's earliest years:

- X всосал Y с молоком матери{{}}≈ X imbibed (absorbed) Y with his mother's milk;

- X drank Y in with his mother's milk;

- X learned <was suckled on> Y at his mother's breast;

- X was nurtured on his mother's milk with Y.

     ♦ Многих этому учат с детства. Для многих это - неоспоримые истины, воспринятые с молоком матери, и других они никогда не знали (Аллилуева 2). Many have been taught all this since childhood. For many these have been incontrovertible truths absorbed with their mother's milk: they have never known any others (2a).

     ♦ В них ещё говорит былой испуг и ужас перед разбушевавшейся стихией, хотя по возрасту большинство любителей порядка не могли в зрелом состоянии видеть стихию. Испуг они всосали с молоком матери (Мандельштам 2). These champions of order talk as they do because of the fear and horror once inspired in them by the elemental fury of popular revolution-though most of them were still at a tender age when it happened. They were suckled on fear of it at their mothers' breasts (2a).

     ♦ "...Она с молоком матери впитала любовь к труду, рабочая косточка..." (Орлова 1). "...She has been nurtured on her mothers milk with a love for work, she's a worker, body and soul" (1a).