know from Adam
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"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
It might be going too far to say that heaven is other people, but I will never not love the interchanging of spirit, or the quasi-religious experiences that can be shared with someone you don’t know from Adam.
From The Guardian
And as we know from Adam Smith this leads to an increase in output.
From Forbes
Who Jared Fullerton is I don’t know from Adam; but I bet he’s cut from the same pattern Clarence and Joe were.”
From Project Gutenberg
The room contained neither of these, but one stranger, and him I didn’t know from Adam.
From Project Gutenberg
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