RichThesaurus
take to something as a duck takes to water
vs
take to something like a duck to water
take to something as a duck takes to water
take to something like a duck to water
verb
To adapt to something naturally and effortlessly.
How often have the words
take to something as a duck takes to water
and
take to something like a duck to water
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)