土tou2生sang1土tou2長zoeng2

simp土生土长

tou2 sang1 tou2 zoeng2tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng

English

(idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
locally born and raised

粵語 — Cantonese

形容一樣嘢係響同一個地方出世同長大

Examples

熊猫在四川省土生土长，不在任何其他省份的野外生活。
The panda is indigenous to Sichuan Province and does not live in the wild in any other places.
Tatoeba · eastasiastudent CC BY
佢係土生土長嘅香港人。
He was born and bred in Hong Kong.
我哋公司係響呢度土生土長。
Our company is born and raised in this land.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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