Meaning:
If you refer to something as a forbidden fruit, you mean it is an illicit pleasure or something desired that cannot be had.
Examples:
- Far from solving the problem by eliminating the attraction of forbidden fruit, the legalization of the sale of soft drugs, persistently called for by some Members, would merely exacerbate it by increasing the supply and making it easier to purchase drugs.
- Why did Adam eat the forbidden fruit?
- With regard to the age limit, we should perhaps avoid making this matter into something of a forbidden fruit.
- And also they reference how the uvula—everything they say is fallen because of the forbidden fruit.
- Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and were expelled from Eden.
- Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and were expelled from Paradise.