born yesterday in English

innocent, naive

Use "born yesterday" in a sentence

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1. Bola granola wasn’t born yesterday

2. Oh yeah? I wasn't born yesterday, you know.

3. A saying that expresses something other than the literal meaning of the words it contains is a Colloquialism, like saying "I wasn't born yesterday," to mean "you can't fool me." Colloquialism comes from the Latin word colloquium meaning "conference, conversation," or literally "a speaking together."