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
"I might have a lot of paper money by me, and not know from Adam where I got it."
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
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
"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
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
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