not born yesterday

Example Sentences

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"You were not born yesterday, you understood exactly what you were doing," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024

Because he was not born yesterday, Engoron is unlikely to believe that being female is an all-purpose preventative from buying into gender stereotypes, however.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2023

But the voting public was not born yesterday and is increasingly sick of being spun.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2016

But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as she is so often reminded, was not born yesterday.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2014

The English garden, as I have just tried to sketch it, was not born yesterday, the bombastic child of a landscape-gardener's recipe.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.