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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]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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