What Does “Forbidden fruit” mean?
Definition:
If you refer to something as a forbidden fruit, you mean it is an illicit pleasure or something desired that cannot be had.
Origin
The phrase alludes to the religious monotheist story about the fruit that God forbade Adam not to eat in the Garden of Eden.
According to the biblical and Quranic scriptures, Adam and Eve are exiled from Eden after eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 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.
— Genesis 2:16–17And their Lord called out to them: Did I not forbid you both from that tree and say to you that the Shaitan is your open enemy?
— Quran 7:22
The nature of the fruit alluded to in these narratives is unclear but the Western World depicts it as an apple.
Example(s)
He has her in his mind, and no matter what it takes, he is going to find a way to enjoy his forbidden fruit.
He was her forbidden fruit, and she was doomed to be a sinner.
