"born in a barn" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2006 October 20, Heather Murphy, “The More the Merrier?”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2008-09-15",
          "text": "Neither bothered to lock or shut the house's front or back doors. \"It was like they had been born in a barn,\" she says.",
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        "In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed for inappropriately, and usually neglectingly, leaving an exterior door or window open, considered ill-mannered."
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        "(idiomatic) In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed for inappropriately, and usually neglectingly, leaving an exterior door or window open, considered ill-mannered."
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        {
          "ref": "1971, Joyce Carol Oates, Wonderland: A Novel, Vanguard Press, page 76",
          "text": "His aunt said angrily: \"Fritz, were you born in a barn? Don't you have any manners?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 June 19, Ruth Ann Baker, “Even wolves behave in the pack”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 2008-09-15, page N4",
          "text": "Phone at a symphony concert? I'd ask if these people were born in a barn, but that would disrespect the animals.",
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        "In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed as lacking a sense of etiquette or being ill-mannered."
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          "etiquette",
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          "ill-mannered",
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        "(idiomatic) In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed as lacking a sense of etiquette or being ill-mannered."
      ],
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          "sense": "lacking etiquette",
          "word": "raised by wolves"
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          "_dis1": "9 91",
          "sense": "lacking etiquette",
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      ],
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  "word": "born in a barn"
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          "ref": "2006 October 20, Heather Murphy, “The More the Merrier?”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2008-09-15",
          "text": "Neither bothered to lock or shut the house's front or back doors. \"It was like they had been born in a barn,\" she says.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed for inappropriately, and usually neglectingly, leaving an exterior door or window open, considered ill-mannered."
      ],
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          "neglectingly",
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        "(idiomatic) In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed for inappropriately, and usually neglectingly, leaving an exterior door or window open, considered ill-mannered."
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 June 19, Ruth Ann Baker, “Even wolves behave in the pack”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 2008-09-15, page N4",
          "text": "Phone at a symphony concert? I'd ask if these people were born in a barn, but that would disrespect the animals.",
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        "In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed as lacking a sense of etiquette or being ill-mannered."
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        "(idiomatic) In a past tense: criticizing the person to whom the phrase is directed as lacking a sense of etiquette or being ill-mannered."
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      "sense": "lacking etiquette",
      "word": "raised by wolves"
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    {
      "sense": "lacking etiquette",
      "word": "raised in a barn"
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  "word": "born in a barn"
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