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know someone from Adam

idiom

To know or recognize someone at all.


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  1. 01

    Adam Tiler

    A pickpocket's accomplice; the person who takes the goods a pickpocket steals and leaves with them.

  2. 02

    as if someone owns the place

    Alternative form of like someone owns the place.

  3. 03

    as you know

    as it is already known.

  4. 04

    beat someone round the ears

    To beat (a person) with blows about the head.

  5. 05

    bless someone with

    To give or bestow, as a gift from God.

  6. 06

    bring someone to their knees

    To defeat and make submit to orders.

  7. 07

    call someone every name in the book

    To call someone many abusive names.

  8. 08

    call someone everything but a child of God

    To call someone many abusive names.

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