10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAS NOT BORN YESTERDAY»
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was not born yesterday in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
was not born yesterday and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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George's World: It's a Little Strange Here
By G. E. Shuman I was not born yesterday. If you know me, or if you are reading
this in the paper and happen to have noticed the picture of the handsome man
beside this column, you already know that I was not born yesterday. In fact, and
just ...
2
Video Versions: Film Adaptations of Plays on Video
... he is entertaining the politicians he hopes to bribe. Proving that she was not “
born yesterday” after all, Billie learns enough from Paul to know that what Harry is
doing is vile, and she threatens to expose his plans unless he abandons them.
THOMAS ERSKINE, JAMES WELSH, 2000
3
Playing Fast and Loose: Match Wits with the Author and Guess ...
When a girl tells an outright cram, then I can at least say to her: Oh, clear out, don
't tell such a frightful whacker; I was not born yesterday. But one has no safeguard
against deceitfulness. That's why I don 't like cats. We have another namefor ...
Historically, on the other hand, many have chosen to call highly likely belief
knowledge because we can say meaningfully things such as: I know I was not
born yesterday; and there is nothing linguistically wrong with saying so, as it
cannot be ...
5
Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
BORN (not) be born yesterday (not) be foolish or likely to be deceived because of
lack of experience You cannot fool me; I was not born yesterday. born and bred
bom, bought up and educated (in a specified place) He was Calcutta born and ...
6
The Student's Practical Dictionary of Idioms, Phrases and ...
One man is born with a rilvtr tpoon in hit mouth, and another with a wooden ladle.
—Goldsmith. Not born yesterday— not a fool ; not easily deceived or outwitted.
Bachchá nahin; nádán nabin. Sir, I was not born yesterday, you cannot make a ...
She knew my weakest link, but since I was not born yesterday, I refused to be
continuously duped; I also refused to be like her. That defined shame was only
on her. She simply was fooling herself. Odia Sico knew my weakest link ...
8
The St. James's Magazine
James Burmister was not born yesterday !" "That is true, but it is not the less true
that he is a crowing, childish fool still. Has it never occurred to you, James
Burmister, whilst speculating upon the advantages you may derive by trading
upon the ...
9
Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an ...
... Fernand Hibbert, and Antoine Innocent — began to discover the peculiarities of
our country, the fact that we had an African past, that the slave was not born
yesterday, that voodoo was an important element in the development of our
national ...
Jerome Rothenberg, Diane Rothenberg, 1983
10
Channeling the Eternal Woman:
Your soul was not born yesterday, in those terms, but before the annals of time as
you think of time. (Page 4) Much is not as yet known. Your psychologists are not
able to think in terms of a soul, and your religious leaders are not able, or refuse ...
Christopher Alan Anderson, 2014
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAS NOT BORN YESTERDAY»
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370000 babies were born yesterday, 29000 will die before age 5
No, the Messiah was not born yesterday, contrary to what you might have been thinking such was the media hype. The media overload is frankly, depressing ... «IrishCentral, Jul 13»
