>So, your answer is no. Americans don't analogize a delicious or >especially >thirst quenching drink with mother's milk. Odd, because I think Canadians do. Mind you, I spent 4 years in the UK, so perhaps that's why the term seems normal to me. Maybe we should use the phrase more -- in the analogous sense, rather than the literal one -- to help CHANGE the North American perception of term. Personally I'm going to try and use it twice in conversation this week. (By the way, as an idiom, it doesn't have to refer to a liquid. It can be used to mean the same as "she took to it like a duck to water", ie, "it was like mother's milk to her".) Jennifer Landels, BA, CCE Vancouver BC