от пеленок

• С <ОТ> ПЕЛЕНОК coll; С <ОТ> ПЕЛЕН obs; С (ОТ) КОЛЫБЕЛИ lit

[PrepP; these forms only; adv]

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⇒ 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 bom 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).