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Meaning of from Missouri | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Skeptical, not easily convinced and requiring proof.

informal

Examples

“The appeal to experience was the cry of the man from Missouri—the demand to be shown.”

“When one predicted that the atom bomb would end the world, the other said, ‘I’m from Missouri—you’ll have to show me.’ His friend answered, ‘Hell, who isn’t from Missouri these days?’”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

from Murphy to Manteo from my cold, dead hands from now on from on high from one day to the next from post to pillar