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Adam's housecat

Region
South

Definition 
The Southern expression "I wouldn't know him from Adam's housecat" is an attempt to improve upon "I wouldn't know him from Adam's off ox" (referring to the "off" ox in the yoke farthest away from the driver), which in tura is a variation of "I wouldn't know him from Adam." Maybe it's better than both of its predecessors, since hardly anyone drives oxen these days and, as more than one humorist has observed, Adam had no navel, wore only a fig leaf at most and would have been fairly easy to identify.

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