forbidden fruit

1. 1.

   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)

   Broadertemptation

Questions about forbidden fruit

What does forbidden fruit mean?

forbidden fruit means "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)".

Is forbidden fruit a common word?

forbidden fruit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.