don't get above your raising

English

Alternative forms

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

Proverb

don't get above your raising

1. (Southern US) Do not act in a manner not in keeping with the way you were brought up.

See also

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