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as brown as a berry	Entirely or almost completely brown; often referring to a suntanned skin.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
brown noser	One who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
brown thumb	Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
brown power	The production of electricity made from conventional sources, such as coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down	In order to save water, only flush the toilet after defecation, not after urination.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
brown bag	A short presentation or seminar on a given subject, especially one given at lunchtime.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brown bread	Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brown out	To experience a partial loss of vision having the characteristics of a brownout, to suffer a brownout.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brown study	A melancholy mood accompanied by deep thought; a moody daydream.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brown-noser	Alternative spelling of brown noser. (one who flatters others in an obsequious manner.)	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
chestnut	A dark, reddish-brown colour/color.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down	An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.	Rate it: (4.00 / 5 votes)
throw dirt enough, and some will stick	If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
Bottle of Dog	Newcastle Brown Ale	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
chestnut	A reddish-brown horse.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
chestnut	Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
let's go brandon	Made famous during the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at the Talladega Speedway in Alabama, after Brandon Brown lands his first career win.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sewer rat	brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)