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
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 Edgeworth, Maria
Fauvel, whom I don't know from Adam or Eve?
From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile
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
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 Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence by Arundel, Louis
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.
