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forbidden fruit

NOUN
  1. originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)

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  • Elroy is surprised to learn that the gardens are not fables but space stations that orbit the Earth and are run by a much-feared Lord, who seeks out Wiggles for taking the forbidden fruit - an apple, natch. 4/06 UPDATE: My New Year's Resolution
  • She still did lip service to the old ways, while herself nibbling away at forbidden fruit.
  • The researchers call this the "forbidden fruit hypothesis, " based upon previous research that has demonstrated that people find things more desirable when they off-limits or forbidden.
  • It were as if thoughts shared whilst freewheeling down a country lane existed for just those few shameless moments, then could be thrown away, to decay in the hedgerows like the discarded cores of forbidden fruit.
  • Forbidden Fruit offsets a studio photo portrait of an innocently luscious teenage girl with a Gourmet magazine cover featuring glamorously lit ripe pomegranates.
  • It is said that the specific name _paradisiaca_ is derived, either from a supposition that the plantain was the forbidden fruit of Eden [151], or from an Arabic legend that Adam and Eve made their first aprons of the leaves of this tree, which grow to a length of five to six feet, with a width of 12 to 14 inches. The Philippine Islands
  • But like drugs, and alcohol during Prohibition, black-market contraband always provides a means to acquire whatever is the forbidden fruit of the moment.
  • They should have rejoiced with their blessings and not lusted after the one thing they could not have -- the forbidden fruit. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Deception And Desire: An Overview Of Genesis
  • He felt very attracted to his best friend's wife, but admitted that it was partly because she was forbidden fruit.
  • They lived in an Eden of the senses where the only forbidden fruit was borne of the tree of knowledge. COMPULSION
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