Born and bred
Meaning
born and bred
(idiomatic) Showing characteristics of birth and upbringing, especially in relation to a particular location.
She is a born and bred New Yorker.
Oh, you're from America? —Born and bred.
Synonyms
Examples
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects.... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] should be bred up in it too.
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.
Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.