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DirtyGame Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

What does the following sentence mean?

"I was radicalised on my mother's knee"
Does it mean on my mother's way? Or during childhood? Or what?
  

Top answer

Childhood. The image being that the age was young enough to still sit on the mother's lap.

  • Childhood.
  • The image being that the age was young enough to still sit on the mother's lap.
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Childhood.

The image being that the age was young enough to still sit on the mother's lap.
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DirtyGame"I was radicalised on my mother's knee"
It implies that your mother was a radical, and taught radical ideas to you when you were very young.
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AlpheccaStarstaught radical ideas to you when you were very young
See also, "red diaper baby".

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