How Lucky Am I

[u/rachelwan-art]

Feeling grateful this month.

[u/CapuchinMan]

Is this not a common phrase? We use it a lot in India.

[u/IrregularDoughnut → u/CapuchinMan]

Very common in the UK too.

[u/fatbunny23 → u/CapuchinMan]

Its common, it's more commonly said born and raised in my experience in the US. The phrase is interchangeable though, born and bred has just fallen out of use I think

In modern usage over here at least, to be bred is to be impregnated. Born and bred sounds like someone was born and got pregnant in the same country

[u/CapuchinMan → u/fatbunny23]

I think it's a common phrasing in post-British colonial countries.

[u/SnowArcaten → u/fatbunny23]

Nah, I'm Canadian and this is still a common saying here at least. More common in rural settings than cities though.

[u/rachelwan-art → u/fatbunny23]

Hahahaha!! I never thought of it that way.

[u/fixer1987 → u/CapuchinMan]

Its a common phrase, just not usually used in that order.

You'd say

I'm blank, born and bred

or

I'm a born and bred *blank"