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1.(Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
Idiom of the Day
run out of patience
to become annoyed after being patient for a period of time
The mother has run out of patience with her son.