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Definition

To know or recognize someone at all.

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In Context

  • "'Who is she, anyway? Interfering . . . pestering . . . you must know.' 'I don't know her from Adam,' the Boy said."
  • ""Well," he said, "do you know me from Adam?""
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Related Idioms

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know someone from a can of paint

Synonym of know someone from Adam.

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know someone from Eve

To know or recognize someone at all.

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know inside and out

To know (something or someone) very thoroughly.

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know the score

To be aware of a situation, especially of the consequences of miscondu…

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know beans about

To know nothing, or almost nothing, about.

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know every trick in the book

To know all there is to be known about a certain discipline.
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