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To fall off a turnip truck means to be inexperienced, unworldly and gullible.

The phrase evokes a country bumpkin hitching a ride to the big city on a vegetable conveyance. Upon arrival, he is green and ripe for exploitation by city slickers.

Last updated: June 26, 2008.

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