IDIOMS THROUGH SONGS (BORN AND RAISED)
IDIOMS THROUGH SONGS (BORN AND RAISED): meaning and examples
Welcome back, everyone! It's our second day of our Idioms-Through-Songs week.
Today we are looking at Journey's "Don’t Stop Believing" and the expression BORN AND RAISED.
Lyrics: Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit.
Definition: The place where a person was born and spent their childhood.
Example 1: I was born and raised here, in this town.
Example 2: My Dad was born and raised in Canada, but he moved to France when he was 18.
You can listen to the song at the following link (and the lyrics are included):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KGe_4leh_Y
That's it for today. Thank you for reading!
Tomorrow join us for another lesson where we will extract another idiom from a song, this time by The Beatles.