not born yesterday
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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
"I was not born yesterday, my lord, I assure you," said the doctor in his jocular way.
From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins
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