forbidden fruit

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forbidden fruit

Fig. someone or something that one finds attractive or desirable partly because having the person or thing is immoral or illegal. (Biblical; from the apple in the Garden of Eden that was forbidden to Adam by God.) Jim flirts with his sister-in-law only because she's forbidden fruit. The boy watches that program only when his parents are out. It's forbidden fruit.

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And having eaten of the forbidden fruit, Eve urged Adam too to eat, for it seemed to her that a fair new life was open to her. English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context But it was not, and Polly's fun cost more than the price of gloves and bonnet, for, having nibbled at forbidden fruit, she had to pay the penalty. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May View in context			for the birds for the devil of it for the duration for the fun of it for the good of for the heck of it for the hell of it for the life of for the life of me for the long haul for the moment for the most part for the present for the record for the sake of argument for the taking for the time being for trouble for two cents for want of a better word For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse ... for what it's worth for your information forage forbid forbidden fruit force force down force hand force in force of habit force off force on force or an animal from force out of force out of office force through force to be reckoned with force to the wall fore fore and aft foreclose on foregone foregone conclusion forelock-tugging forest forever forever and ever forewarn forewarn about Forewarned is forearmed			Forbes, John Murray Forbes, Malcolm Forbes, Robert Bennet Forbes, Stephen Alfred Forbes, William Cameron Forbes-Albright Syndrome Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston Forbes.com Forbes.com Forbes.com LLC Forbes.com LLC forbesite forbid forbid forbid forbiddance forbiddance forbiddance forbidden forbidden forbidden Forbidden (album) Forbidden (album) forbidden band forbidden band forbidden by law Forbidden City Forbidden City forbidden clone hypothesis Forbidden Dialect forbidden fruit Forbidden fruit effect Forbidden fruit effect Forbidden Fruits of Civil Society Forbidden line Forbidden lines Forbidden mechanism Forbidden mechanism Forbidden Palace Forbidden Palace Forbidden Palace Flower Forbidden Palace Flower Forbidden Planet Forbidden Planet International Forbidden Planet Productions Forbidden rice forbidden the banns Forbidden transition Forbidden transition Forbidden Years forbidden-character code forbidden-combination check Forbidden-Region Virtual Fixture Forbiddenly forbidder forbidder forbidder forbidding forbidding forbidding forbidding the banns

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