not know one is born

phrase

To be spoiled; to have an easy life without appreciating it.

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Meanings

phrase
  1. idiomaticinformalTo be spoiled; to have an easy life without appreciating it.

    "One bad night and you think you're starving! You don't know you're born!"

    2013, Lisa Tuttle, Panther in Argyll
    1 more example

    "The trouble with workers to-day," he said, "is that they don't know they're born."

    1949, Punch, volume 217
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MLA

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Chicago

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