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forbidden fruit

Illicit pleasure; something that one should not take or get involved with, such as an another person's spouse.

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  • With reference to Genesis 2:17: ‘But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’
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forbidden fruitThe fruit forbidden to Adam.
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