born yesterday



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?
See also: born, yesterday

born yesterday

Naive or ignorant. Used in negative constructions: Of course I can use a computer; I wasn't born yesterday.
See also: born, yesterday

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Gabija-Lithuanian, Baltic Mythology
PeregrinePER-ə-grin, PER-ə-greenEnglish (Rare)
Meera-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada
Calixto-Spanish, Portuguese
BarnabasBAHR-nah-bahs (German), BAHR-nə-bəs (English)German, English (Rare), Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
ThorbjÖRn-Swedish