forbidden fruit
Example Sentences
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His WASPy Hubbell represents forbidden fruit to Streisand’s 1930s college activist; the movie gets its shout-out on “Sex and the City.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
This may be due to a "forbidden fruit" effect, which could make potentially aversive material more tempting to viewers.
From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2023
In every version of the story, Eve ate the forbidden fruit first.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2023
Travel and tourism feel a bit like forbidden fruit, tantalizing but snatched away at the last minute.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2021
She still did lip service to the old ways, while herself nibbling away at forbidden fruit.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
