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knows someone from Adam

knows someone from Adam is the third-person singular simple present indicative of know someone from Adam.

Meaning of know someone from Adam

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) 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.1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

Questions about knows someone from Adam

What is knows someone from Adam the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Knows someone from Adam is the third-person singular simple present indicative of know someone from Adam.

Words near knows someone from Adam in the dictionary

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

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