Missing part of an idiom or expression I heard “Have you lost the [something] you were born with”

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I am writing a story and my character is being scolded for doing something stupid. I have an expression on the tip of my tongue, but part of it keeps evading me! "Have you lost the [thing that keeps evading me] you were born with?" Is it the good senses you were born with? The brain you were born with? I can't remember and it is beginning to drive me crazy... Does anyone know the part I'm missing?






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    We say "sense." Sometimes, it's used like a play on "cents"...like they lost change.
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I am writing a story and my character is being scolded for doing something stupid. I have an expression on the tip of my tongue, but part of it keeps evading me! "Have you lost the [thing that keeps evading me] you were born with?" Is it the good senses you were born with? The brain you were born with? I can't remember and it is beginning to drive me crazy... Does anyone know the part I'm missing?






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    We say "sense." Sometimes, it's used like a play on "cents"...like they lost change.
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I am writing a story and my character is being scolded for doing something stupid. I have an expression on the tip of my tongue, but part of it keeps evading me! "Have you lost the [thing that keeps evading me] you were born with?" Is it the good senses you were born with? The brain you were born with? I can't remember and it is beginning to drive me crazy... Does anyone know the part I'm missing?






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    We say "sense." Sometimes, it's used like a play on "cents"...like they lost change.
    – KannE
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    We say "sense." Sometimes, it's used like a play on "cents"...like they lost change.
    – KannE
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We say "sense." Sometimes, it's used like a play on "cents"...like they lost change.
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We say "sense." Sometimes, it's used like a play on "cents"...like they lost change.
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Have you lost the little sense you were born with?



Sometimes little is omitted.



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    To paraphrase the 1907 American folk story Epaminondas and His Auntie, the saying is, "You don't have the sense you were born with."






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      Sometimes little is omitted.



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        Sometimes little is omitted.



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          Have you lost the little sense you were born with?



          Sometimes little is omitted.



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          Sometimes little is omitted.



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              To paraphrase the 1907 American folk story Epaminondas and His Auntie, the saying is, "You don't have the sense you were born with."






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                  To paraphrase the 1907 American folk story Epaminondas and His Auntie, the saying is, "You don't have the sense you were born with."






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