know from Adam
IdiomsExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"I do not feel happy or safe moving him into a family home that we've never met and don't know from Adam," she says.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025
Fauvel, whom I don't know from Adam or Eve?
From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile
"I might have a lot of paper money by me, and not know from Adam where I got it."
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
And by folks you never saw afore and don't know from Adam!
From The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
Moggs don't know from Adam where she is; and you never knowed her do anything of that kind.
From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
