know someone from Adam

verb

Definitions

  1. To know or recognize someone at all.

    • '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?"

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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