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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adverb Phrase 25 . The adverb phrase today
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is born yesterday. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.
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If someone says that another person must think or acts like he or she was born
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yesterday, he or she is saying that the other person that other person who's
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saying it , must think he or she is gullible, easy to fool or easy to trick..
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Gullible is also a person that that believes almost anything. Easy to fool,
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naïve, not smart, etc. Okay. Good. Let's continue. The idea of this phrase alludes
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to a newborn that is only one day old and is of course naïve. If the baby's
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just born of course they know almost nothing. They don't hardly know anything
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at all. They just know that they feel discomfort and they usually can just cry.
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And that's about all they do know. They're, they're an open book. That's the way we
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sometimes say it. So and could not possibly be aware if someone was trying
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to trick or deceive them. So that's the way we use it you they say like they
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must think I am like that. Like that baby, that is only one day old. Okay. Let's
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continue. We have got four examples to cover all this. So this is just the way you may
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hear it used. Number one. I cannot believe he expects me to accept that excuse. He
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must think I was born yesterday, yesterday. So that excuse is just too
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ridiculous or too stupid. He must think I was born yesterday.
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That I would accept such a stupid excuse. Something like that. Number two. Of course,
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I know that. Don't treat me like an idiot. Yeah. You often hear people say
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something like this. I wasn't born yesterday. So if somebody was treating
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someone like they were a fool or an idiot they might say this in this way.
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?All right. Number three here. Do they really expect
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us to think those reasons are acceptable? They act like we were born yesterday.
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That we can't figure this out. That we can't see through this. Okay, and the last
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one. Number four here. Don't talk down to me. You know, like you were either
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somebody younger or older or you know not as smart. Like I am a child. Don't
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treat me like I was born yesterday. Okay. So this is exactly how you hear it used.
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Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear.Thank you for your time.
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Bye-bye.