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
"And do you mind my telling you, I didn't know from Adam what it was for, that Barry Lynch was sending for me?"
From The Kellys and the O'Kellys by Anthony Trollope
For I met Tony and he made me come round to a dinner, and there I found people I didn't know from Adam drinking the old toasts we started.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
Men I did not know from Adam held up glasses and nodded to me in solemn fuddled approval as I came down past them into the crowd again.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I'm neither watch nor repater—I scorn both; and between you and I, since you say so, counshillor, that's my chiefest objection to Carver, whom I wouldn't know from Adam, except by reputation.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 08 by Maria Edgeworth
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