Definition of "forbidden fruit" []

• An indulgence or a pleasure that is illegal or is believed to be immoral. (noun)

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• "These Manitobans would die rather than acknowledge that their province has been slighted by Pomona, and yet apples are as much a forbidden fruit here as in Eden."
• "I am always an assiduous and a patient teacher, and very little time is left to me to write PROFESSIONALLY, seeing that I cannot keep awake after midnight and that I want to spend all my evening with my family; but this lack of time stimulates me and makes me find a true pleasure in digging away; it is like a forbidden fruit that I taste in secret."
• "The girl who is over-ready for her lover's first kiss, has tasted the forbidden fruit already, or has waited over-long for it."