born yesterday

Example Sentences

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“I wasn’t born yesterday, Ana,” her mom says, coming down the stairs.

From Literature

But in the interest of not pretending as if we were all born yesterday, the much likelier case is that someone who knew about the coming operation saw a chance to make half a million bucks and took it.

From Slate

Penelope gulped, adjusted her rumpled velvet cloak, and tried once more to convince the captain, through pantomime and whatever words in English or French he seemed to recognize, that she was not a stowaway precisely, but more of an accidental passenger, and that the Queen of England would pay generously for her safe passage home, but Captain Strøm was not born yesterday, as the saying goes.

From Literature

You need not have been born yesterday to be frustrated.

From Slate

She also toured in “Gypsy,” “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Born Yesterday” and “The Desk Set.”

From Seattle Times