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To the manner born

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Familiar or adapted as if from birth with a specified custom, behavior, accouterment, etc.; naturally suited to it.

    "This [...] involved not only wearing certain clothes as if to the manner born, but being familiar with the gestures and the style of conversation associated with such clothes."

Etymology

Coined by William Shakespeare in 1603 in Hamlet, act 1, scene 4: : But to my mind, though I am native here : And to the manner born, it is a custom : More honored in the breach than the observance.

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