forbidden fruit

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forbidden fruit
something tempting but potentially dangerous, immoral or unlawful pleasure; fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden


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forbidden fruit
Noun
1. the original forbidden fruit was 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)
(hypernym) temptation, enticement



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forbidden fruit
Synonyms and related words:
Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, agacerie, allure, allurement, ambition, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, ban, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, captivation, catch, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, contraband, dearest wish, denial, desideration, desideratum, desire, disallowance, embargo, enchantment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, exclusion, fascination, flirtation, forbiddance, forbidding, glamour, glimmering goal, golden vision, hope, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inducement, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, interest, inveiglement, invitation, law, lodestone, magnet, magnetism, no-no, plum, preclusion, prevention, prize, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, refusal, rejection, repression, restrictive covenants, ruling out, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, snaring, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, tantalization, temptation, tree of knowledge, trophy, winning ways, winsomeness, wish, witchery, wooing, zoning, zoning laws
  

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forbidden fruit
idm. สิ่งที่ไม่ได้รับอนุญาต (เนื่องจากน่าสนใจมาก)

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forbidden fruit
Eng: forbidden fruit
Urdu: ثَمرِ مَمنُوعَہ ۔ شَجرِ مَمنُوعَہ ۔ خَیرو شَر کے عِلَم کا درَخت جِسے خُداکے مَنَع کرنے کے باوَجُود آدَم و حَوا نے کھا لِیا تھا ۔ کوئی ناجائز لَذّت ۔ حَرام تَعیش ۔ کوئی غَیر اَخلاقی اِرتَقاب ۔
  

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