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
Moggs don't know from Adam where she is; and you never knowed her do anything of that kind.
From Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
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 Arthur Cheney Train
"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
He was stopped one day in the street by an aggrieved parishioner whom, to use a homely phrase, he did not know from Adam.
From Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell
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