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know someone from Adam's off ox

know someone from Adam's off ox verb: synonym of know someone from Adam.

Verb

know someone from Adam's off ox (third-person singular simple present knows someone from Adam's off ox, present participle knowing someone from Adam's off ox, simple past knew someone from Adam's off ox, past participle known someone from Adam's off ox)

  1. Synonym of know someone from Adam.
    • You never saw the woman. You wouldn't know her from Adam's off ox.1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XXXIX, in Jennie Gerhardt

Synonyms of know someone from Adam's off ox

Forms of know someone from Adam's off ox

third-person singular presentknows someone from Adam's off ox
present participleknowing someone from Adam's off ox
pastknew someone from Adam's off ox
past participleknown someone from Adam's off ox

Questions about know someone from Adam's off ox

What does know someone from Adam's off ox mean?
Know someone from Adam's off ox means synonym of know someone from Adam.
What part of speech is know someone from Adam's off ox?
Know someone from Adam's off ox is a verb.
What is the past tense of know someone from Adam's off ox?
The past tense of know someone from Adam's off ox is knew someone from Adam's off ox.

Words near know someone from Adam's off ox in the dictionary

  1. know someone
  2. know someone from a can of paint
  3. know someone from a hole in the ground
  4. know someone from a hole in the wall
  5. know someone from Adam
  6. know someone from Adam's off ox
  7. know someone from Eve
  8. know someone from the man in the moon
  9. know someone from the man on the moon
  10. know someone in the biblical sense
  11. know someone when

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