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
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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
Morris did not introduce this gentleman, for he came to me with an introduction from one of the professors at Addiscombe, a gentleman I do not know from Adam.
From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Pears, Charles
"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 Trollope, Anthony
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