"fall off the turnip truck" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-fall off the turnip truck.ogg [Australia] Forms: falls off the turnip truck [present, singular, third-person], falling off the turnip truck [participle, present], fell off the turnip truck [past], fallen off the turnip truck [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fall<,,fell,fallen> off the turnip truck}} fall off the turnip truck (third-person singular simple present falls off the turnip truck, present participle falling off the turnip truck, simple past fell off the turnip truck, past participle fallen off the turnip truck)
  1. (chiefly US, stative, idiomatic) To be naive, uninformed, or unsophisticated, in the manner of a rustic person. Tags: US, idiomatic, stative Related terms: be born yesterday, fall off a truck Translations (to be unsophisticated in rustic manner): olla juntti (Finnish), τρώω κουτόχορτο (tróo koutóchorto) (Greek), caerse del guindo (Spanish), caerse del nido (Spanish), caerse de un nido (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fall_off_the_turnip_truck-en-verb-3I331yIq Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Greek terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

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