old Adam
noun
Definition of old Adam
: unregenerate human nature grant that the old Adam in this child may be so buried — Book of Common Prayer the old Adam in me … rises and asserts himself — R. W. Jackson —called also old man
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Origin and Etymology of old adam
after the Biblical Adam, the first man and first sinner
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