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I didn`t fall of the turnip truck yesterday

Posted by Graham Cambray on February 09, 2009 at 23:34

In Reply to: I didn`t fall of the turnip truck yesterday posted by ESC on February 09, 2009 at 23:19:

: : What is the origin of "I didn`t fall of the turnip truck yesterday"?

: I'm not a country lad/gal who just got into town.

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ESC, you're from the US. This has the same meaning as "I wasn't born yesterday", pretty much. An old European story (told to kids too young to have the mysteries of copulation explained to them) used to be that babies were brought by the stork. Go back a generation or two in the US, would they have told children that they'd been brought on the turnip truck, grown on a tree, or whatever? (GC)

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