know someone in the biblical sense

present singular third person knows someone in the biblical sense · participle present knowing someone in the biblical sense · past knew someone in the biblical sense · participle past known someone in the biblical sense · alternative know someone in the Biblical sense

1. euphemisticidiomaticTo have sex with someone.

   It only stood to reason that a woman who knew Him in a Biblical sense would have to be His bride.

   2007, Tom LaMarr, Hallelujah City, →ISBN, page 46

   3 more examples

   James may not have known women in the biblical sense; but had Adams read the novels with care, he would have been agreeably surprised by the keen insights on the feminine psyche displayed there.

   1969, Ronald M. Meldrum, “Three of Henry James's Dark Ladies”, in Research Studies, volume 37, page 54

   As for Modigliani he is not a painter I know so I don't know if he knew Bianca in the biblical sense or not.

   1980, William Wiser, Disappearances, →ISBN, page 90

   Paul says there are still those who knew him, in the Biblical sense, living on the West Coast — that he was "trade" for "everybody."

   1995, Lyle Leverich, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams, →ISBN, page 456

   Synonyms: go in unto, know, lie with

present singular third person knows someone in the Biblical sense · participle present knowing someone in the Biblical sense · past knew someone in the Biblical sense · participle past known someone in the Biblical sense

1. Alternative letter-case form of know someone in the biblical sense.

   And forget about your aspiration to know her in the Biblical sense.

   1977, Thomas Berger, chapter 15, in Who Is Teddy Villanova?, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, →ISBN, page 243

   2 more examples

   A few days after yours truly met her and got to know her in the Biblical sense, so to speak—you follow me?

   1960 January, Camilo José Cela, “Samson García, Traveling Photographer”, in Angel Flores, editor, Spanish Stories/Cuentos Españoles: A Bantam Dual-Language Book (Bantam Foreign Language), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published March 1979, →ISBN, page 253

   Don’t broaden your interest to include wanting to know her in the Biblical sense or she’s liable to blow your head off.

   1977, John Jakes, “Dorn’s Daughter”, in The Warriors (The Kent Chronicles; 6), Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., book 3 (The Fire Road), page 264