| 单词 | not born yesterday |
| 释义 | not born yesterdaySEE SYNONYMS FOR not born yesterday ON THESAURUS.COM More experienced and less naive than one appears to be, as in Don't think you can fool me; I wasn't born yesterday. This term gained currency from the title of Garson Kanin's popular Broadway play, Born Yesterday, which was made into an even more popular film. In both, Judy Holliday played a stereotypical dumb blonde who shows more common sense than her sophisticated acquaintances. [Early 1800s] Words nearby not born yesterdaynotate, notation, not bad, not bat an eye, not be caught dead, not born yesterday, not breathe a word, not built that way, not by a long shot, not by any means, notch The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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