English Explanatory Dictionary

don't get above your raising

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. Do not act in a manner not in keeping with the way you were brought up.

Word forms

don't get above your raising don't get above your raisin' getting above your raising getting above your raisin'

Related words

act above one's station forget where one came from pretense snobbery
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