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knowing someone from Adam's off ox

knowing someone from Adam's off ox is the present participle of know someone from Adam's off ox.

Meaning of know someone from Adam's off ox

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

Questions about knowing someone from Adam's off ox

What is knowing someone from Adam's off ox the present participle of?
Knowing someone from Adam's off ox is the present participle of know someone from Adam's off ox.

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

  1. knowing someone
  2. knowing someone from a can of paint
  3. knowing someone from a hole in the ground
  4. knowing someone from a hole in the wall
  5. knowing someone from Adam
  6. knowing someone from Adam's off ox
  7. knowing someone from the man in the moon
  8. knowing someone from the man on the moon
  9. knowing someone in the biblical sense
  10. knowing the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
  11. knowing the drill

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