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born yesterday
Extremely na?ve, gullible, or unintelligent, like a newborn baby. Almost always used in the negative or as a rhetorical question. Don't think you can fool me with that old ruse, I wasn't born yesterday, you know. Of course I know that major political issues can't be fixed overnight. Do you think I was born yesterday?
born yesterday
Naive or ignorant. Used in negative constructions: Of course I can use a computer; I wasn't born yesterday.