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babe in arms
Idioms and Phrases
An infant, as in She's been a family friend since I was a babe in arms . Although the word “babe” for baby has been used since the 1300s, this phrase describing a child too young to walk (and hence having to be carried) dates only from about 1900.Example Sentences
More than 30 migrants, including a babe in arms, have died and dozens more have survived after their overloaded boat sank in rough seas off southern Italy.
Ms Newell continued: "His age is not a defence, he is not a babe in arms, he knows right from wrong."
Andrei Varleez joined a queue at a petrol station with his wife and sons - one of them just a babe in arms - after hearing the bombardment overnight.
Nat Laws was a babe in arms in 1910 when his parents, Henry and Anna, moved here.
Elsewhere in the series, an unnamed couple — a female couple, once you zoom in — walks down the dirt road of Main Street together, a toddler alongside and a babe in arms.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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