forbidden fruit

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 — Album par Nina Simone Sortie 1961 Enregistrement 1960 61 Durée 37:18 Genre Jazz Producteur Cal Lampley …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Forbidden fruit — Forbidden For*bid den, a. Prohibited; interdicted. [1913 Webster] I know no spells, use no forbidden arts. Milton. [1913 Webster] {Forbidden fruit}. (a) Any coveted unlawful pleasure, so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • forbidden fruit — forbidden fruits N VAR Forbidden fruit is a source of pleasure that involves breaking a rule or doing something that you are not supposed to do. ...the forbidden fruit of an illicit romance …   English dictionary

  • forbidden fruit — n. 1. the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, forbidden to Adam and Eve: Gen. 2:17; 3:3 2. any sinful or forbidden pleasure …   English World dictionary

  • forbidden fruit — Something enjoyable that is illegal or immoral is forbidden fruit …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • forbidden fruit — [n] taboo desired object, golden apple, illicit love, no no*, prohibition; concepts 532,687 …   New thesaurus

  • forbidden fruit — ► forbidden fruit a thing that is desired all the more because it is not allowed. [ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to the Book of Genesis, chapter 2.] Main Entry: ↑forbid …   English terms dictionary

  • Forbidden fruit — The term forbidden fruit is a metaphor that describes any object of desire whose appeal is a direct result of the knowledge that it cannot or should not be obtained or something that someone may want but cannot have. The phrase refers to the Book …   Wikipedia

  • forbidden fruit — noun 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) • Hypernyms: ↑temptation, ↑enticement * * * noun 1. : an immoral… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Forbidden Fruit — Infobox Album Name = Forbidden Fruit Type = Album Artist = Nina Simone Released = 1961 Recorded = New York City 1961 Genre = Vocal Jazz Blues Folk Length = Label = Colpix Records Producer = Cal Lampey Reviews = Last album = Nina Simone at Newport …   Wikipedia

  • forbidden fruit — n. something that is attractive because it is denied to one. (From the Garden of Eden in the Bible.) □ A new car became Ralph’s forbidden fruit. □ Liquor was forbidden fruit for Jed …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

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