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"text": "I was not born yesterday, you know. I have done this before!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1840, Henry Cockton, chapter 60, in The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist, page 508",
"text": "\"Do you think,\" he added, with an ironical grin, \"that you'll go for to gammon me into that air! I'm hinnocent, I know, but I wasn't born yesterday exactly.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1915, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 6, in Steve Yeager",
"text": "Say, do I look like I was born yesterday? See any green in my eye, Cactus Center?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1998, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks, page 155",
"text": "Compared to me, you were born yesterday.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Howard Zinn, Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Howard Zinn on Democratic Education, page 69",
"text": "If you don't know important things about history, then it's as if you were born yesterday.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To be new, naive, innocent, inexperienced, or easily deceived."
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"(informal, stative, chiefly in the negative) To be new, naive, innocent, inexperienced, or easily deceived."
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"US"
],
"word": "fall off the turnip truck"
},
{
"word": "be born last week"
},
{
"tags": [
"Australian",
"New-Zealand"
],
"word": "come down in the last shower"
},
{
"word": "born at night but not last night"
},
{
"word": "naive"
}
],
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"no-past-participle",
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "van gisteren zijn"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "olla märkäkorva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "olla eilisen teeren poika"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "ne pas être né de la dernière pluie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "von gestern sein"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "most jött le a falvédőről"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "most jött a hathúszassal"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "essere nato ieri"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "spaść z księżyca"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ser nascido ontem"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "včerá rodílsja",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "вчера́ роди́лся"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "cha b' ann an-diugh no an-dè a rugadh mise"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "haber nacido ayer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "nacer ayer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "caerse de un guindo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "caerse del nido"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "chuparse el dedo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "vara född igår"
}
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],
"word": "be born yesterday"
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"ref": "1840, Henry Cockton, chapter 60, in The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist, page 508",
"text": "\"Do you think,\" he added, with an ironical grin, \"that you'll go for to gammon me into that air! I'm hinnocent, I know, but I wasn't born yesterday exactly.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1915, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 6, in Steve Yeager",
"text": "Say, do I look like I was born yesterday? See any green in my eye, Cactus Center?",
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"ref": "1998, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks, page 155",
"text": "Compared to me, you were born yesterday.",
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"ref": "2005, Howard Zinn, Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Howard Zinn on Democratic Education, page 69",
"text": "If you don't know important things about history, then it's as if you were born yesterday.",
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"(informal, stative, chiefly in the negative) To be new, naive, innocent, inexperienced, or easily deceived."
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"word": "fall off the turnip truck"
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"word": "be born last week"
},
{
"tags": [
"Australian",
"New-Zealand"
],
"word": "come down in the last shower"
},
{
"word": "born at night but not last night"
},
{
"word": "naive"
}
],
"translations": [
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "van gisteren zijn"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "olla märkäkorva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "olla eilisen teeren poika"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "ne pas être né de la dernière pluie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "von gestern sein"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "most jött le a falvédőről"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "most jött a hathúszassal"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "essere nato ieri"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "spaść z księżyca"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ser nascido ontem"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "včerá rodílsja",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "вчера́ роди́лся"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "cha b' ann an-diugh no an-dè a rugadh mise"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "haber nacido ayer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "nacer ayer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "caerse de un guindo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "caerse del nido"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "chuparse el dedo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be inexperienced",
"word": "vara född igår"
}
],
"word": "be born yesterday"
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