ALL ONE’S BORN DAYS, phr. (colloquial).—One’s lifetime.
1740. RICHARDSON, Pamela, III. 383. He never was so delighted in his BORN DAYS.
1753. RICHARDSON, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, I. 103. There was one Miss Byron, a Northamptonshire lady, whom I never saw before in my BORN DAYS.
1809. EDGEWORTH, Ennui, ix. Craiglethorpe will know just as much of the lower Irish as the Cockney who has never been out of London, and who has never in all his BORN DAYS seen an Irishman but on the English stage.
BORN WEAK, adv. phr. (nautical).—Said of a vessel feebly laid down. Also BORN TIRED = a humourous confession of fatigue, or a feigned excuse: See BONE IN LEG.
1899. R. WHITEING, No. 5 John Street, xxi. The fact is … I was BORN TIRED.
