forbidden fruit

Meaning

Noun

• The fruit forbidden to Adam.
• Illicit pleasure.
• Something desired that cannot be had.
• A small variety of shaddock (Citrus maxima), or sometimes other citrus fruits.

Origin

• 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.’ (KJV)