adam : Idioms & Phrases

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adam smith

  • noun Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)
    Smith.
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Adam's ale

  • , water. Coll.
Webster 1913

Adam's apple

  • noun tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
    coffee rose; crepe jasmine; East Indian rosebay; crepe gardenia; Nero's crown; crape jasmine; Tabernaemontana divaricate; pinwheel flower.
  • noun the largest cartilage of the larynx
    thyroid cartilage.
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  • . #2 (Bot.) (a) A species of banana (Musa paradisiaca). It attains a height of twenty feet or more. Paxton]. (b) A species of lime (Citris limetta). #2 The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent.
Webster 1913

Adam's flannel

  • (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
Webster 1913

Adam's needle

  • noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
    spoonleaf yucca; needle palm; Adam's needle; Yucca filamentosa.
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  • (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.
Webster 1913

adam's needle-and-thread

  • noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
    spoonleaf yucca; needle palm; Adam's needle; Yucca filamentosa.
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adam's peak

  • noun a mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high)
    Samanala.
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adam-and-eve

  • noun North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers
    Aplectrum hyemale; puttyroot.
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adams-stokes syndrome

  • noun recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat
    heart block; atrioventricular block; Adams-Stokes syndrome.
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fanny adams

  • noun little or nothing at all
    Fanny Adams; bugger all; fuck all.
    • I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all
    • I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery
  • noun nautical term for tinned meat
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helen adams keller

  • noun United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)
    Helen Keller; Keller.
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john adams

  • noun 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)
    John Adams; Adams; President Adams.
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john quincy adams

  • noun 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)
    John Quincy Adams; Adams; President Adams.
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mount adams

  • noun a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high)
    Adams.
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president adams

  • noun 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)
    John Quincy Adams; Adams; President Adams.
  • noun 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)
    John Adams; Adams; President Adams.
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president john adams

  • noun 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)
    John Adams; Adams; President Adams.
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president john quincy adams

  • noun 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)
    John Quincy Adams; Adams; President Adams.
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robert adam

  • noun Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)
    Adam.
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sam adams

  • noun American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)
    Sam Adams; Adams.
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samuel adams

  • noun American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)
    Sam Adams; Adams.
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stokes-adams syndrome

  • noun recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat
    heart block; atrioventricular block; Adams-Stokes syndrome.
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sweet fanny adams

  • noun little or nothing at all
    Fanny Adams; bugger all; fuck all.
    • I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all
    • I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery
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