Be Born Yesterday Meaning
(idiomatic, informal) To be new, naive, innocent, inexperienced, or easily deceived.
Example: I was not born yesterday, you know. I have done this before!
1915, William MacLeod Raine, Steve Yeager, ch. 6:
"Say, do I look like I was born yesterday? See any green in my eye, Cactus Center?"
1998, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks‎, page 155:
"Compared to me, you were born yesterday."
2005, Howard Zinn and Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Howard Zinn on Democratic Education‎, page 69:
If you don't know important things about history, then it's as if you were born yesterday.
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