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born and bred

phr. (context idiomatic English) Showing characteristics of birth and upbringing, especially in relation to a particular location.

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Born and Bred

Born and Bred is a light-hearted British comedy drama series that aired on BBC One from 21 April 2002 to 3 August 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and Bred's cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village in the 1950s. Bolam and French's characters are later replaced by characters played by Richard Wilson and Oliver Milburn.

Usage examples of "born and bred".

Southron-born and bred, rain was not to be trusted, or understood very well.

Liriel knew with the assurance of one born and bred to Menzoberranzan-style intrigue that she was caught up in something bigger than she could yet comprehend.

He and Hund, born and bred within twenty miles of each other, had a strong fellow-feeling.

And all the while Gavril had sat there, unable to seize command as he had been born and bred to do, the very sight and smell of the monsters turning his bowels to water.

But Admiral Danar Nicabar had been born and bred to command mighty vessels.

Though that was cold and bleak, yet it was the position to which he had been born and bred.

He owed it to this as much as to anything else that he had survived being a ruler in the Black Kingdoms, an occupation that often killed men born and bred in these lands.

Don't try it without a man born and bred there and one you can trust.