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
Bahamas Chief Magistrate JoyAnn Ferguson-Pratt contributed witty asides that often left the courtroom chuckling, once quipping "I wasn't born yesterday" at the defense counsel's interpretation of the law.
From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2022
“You must think we were born yesterday, fella!” the show’s no-nonsense senior police officer Ted Hastings, played by Adrian Dunbar, thundered in the video, which has been viewed millions of times on social media.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2022
Why, Laura, that's positively adorable — but in which beautiful, bell-shaped flower filled with dew were you born yesterday?
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021
Ned looked at Jinx like he was born yesterday.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
