born yesterday

Example Sentences

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You need not have been born yesterday to be frustrated.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

"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

“Really,” she said, “I wasn’t quite born yesterday, you know.”

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger