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 • Jun. 3, 2025
"You can't make me responsible for the acts of a person I don't know from Adam."
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman
He calls A., who testifies that this is so—that B., whom he did not know from Adam, tendered his services and that he availed himself of the offer.
From Courts and Criminals by Train, Arthur Cheney
"Whom he does not know from Adam," said David.
From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur
And do you think I'm going to take you to Hell Gate, just on your say-so—you and a crowd of kids I don't know from Adam?
From The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol by Theiss, Lewis E.
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