| 单词 | born yesterday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasborn yesterday born yesterday: used chiefly in negative (sometimes also interrogative or hypothetical) constructions to indicate that one is not naive, foolish, gullible, etc., as in I wasn't born yesterday, do you think I was born yesterday?, as if I had been born yesterday, etc. ΚΠ 1568 W. Barker tr. G. B. Gelli Fearfull Fansies of Florentine Couper x. f. 131 Knowest thou not, that thou art like one born yesterday [It. che tu fussi nata hiersera], & yet ther be many yeres since we first met together? 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd 95 You make of me, as if I had been borne but yesterday [Sp. parece que ayer naci]. 1700 E. Ward Metamorphos'd Beau 15 But harkye, said one, Do you say, you get nothing but by Strangers? What the Devil do you mean? Do you think I was born Yesterday? 1724 E. Haywood Wife to be Lett v. 71 You shan't think to carry it so—I was not born Yesterday. 1757 R. Demere Let. 10 Aug. in W. L. McDowell Docs. relating to Indian Affairs (1970) II. 398 I was not born Yesterday. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. xii. 158 I was not born yesterday, as the saying is. 1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough xii. 133 It is needless for me to observe that Mr. Sawyer was one of those individuals who are described in common parlance as not having been ‘born yesterday’. 1895 J. C. Snaith Dorothy Marvin xlviii. 419 ‘I wasn't born yesterday’, he returned sweetly; ‘methinks I am rather old in the tooth.’ 1925 R. W. Lardner in Cosmopolitan June 47/2 I wasn't born yesterday and I know apple sauce when I hear it. 1959 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) 7 May If there is anybody in Washington who doesn't know this, he must have been born yesterday. 2006 D. Trussoni Falling through Earth (2007) xiv. 259 Oh, I understand. I wasn't born yesterday. < as lemmas |
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