born days

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

One's life-time ever since one was born; a vulgar expression used in various parts of the country. It is also used in the same sense in England.--Craven Glossary.


In a' my born days, I never saw sic a rascal.--Carr's Craven.

An expression nearly similar is used by Froissart:

I know not in all my lyfe days how to deserve it.

Odswinge! this is brave! canny Comberland, oh

In aw my born days see a sight I ne'er saw.

-- Westm. and Cum. Poems.

I never seed such a sight in all my born days. Heaven and earth! thinks I, where could they come from?

-- Maj. Jones's Courtship, p.39.

Where have you been all your born days, not to know better than that?

-- Sam Slick in England, ch. ii.

Bime-by the General begun to let off steam, and such a whizzin' you never heard in your born days.

-- Maj. Downing's Letters, p. 200.

The more (the schoolmaster) read the advertisement, the more he was astonished at the rashest set of temerity he had ever witnessed in his born days.

-- Knickerbocker Mag. vol. xvii. p. 33.

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

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