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brush past	To go by quickly, making slight contact.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
brush up	To review; to improve an existing but rusty or under-developed skill.	Rate it: (5.00 / 3 votes)
paint with a broad brush	To describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
brush off	An abrupt rebuff or dismissal.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
daft as a brush	Describes someone who is known to do and say silly things.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
brush by	To walk past another person, touching them slightly, normally by accident, and ignoring them.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
brush aside	To defeat with ease.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brush aside	To disregard, dismiss or ignore something, as unimportant.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brush down	Used other than as an idiom: see brush, down. To remove something with a brush, or ones hands using a downward brushing motion.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brush down	To straighten up one's clothes and to tidy up one's appearance.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brush under the carpet	To hide, cover up or overlook something, usually a negative thing	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brush with death	To have a life redeemable experience	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brush-up!	A 'brush-up' is a thorough review, rehearsal, self-examination prior to submitting to job interviews, probings, investigations of any category in order to be proficient in the future demands of the hoped-for position, challenge or opportunity:	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give somebody the brush-off	To rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give someone the brush-off	To rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
live over the brush	To cohabit without being married.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tar with the same brush	To characterize using the same undesirable attribute, especially unjustly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
to have a brush with	To encounter	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
touch of the tar brush	Of South Asian or Afro-Caribbean in their background and/or in their appearance.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
des gens de même farine	Persons of the same kidney (generally in a bad sense); People tarred with the same brush.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
les cheveux en brosse	Hair cut short (standing up like the bristles of a brush).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make yourself pretty	improve the way you look i.e. get dressed (especially in something nicer than what you are already wearing), put on makeup, brush your hair, brush your teeth, etc; connotes that you are not pretty enough at this moment and that you should improve the way you look; an insult sometimes used intentionally (or unintentionally) to make someone feel inferior	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sweep aside	To push or brush to the side	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sweep aside	To ignore, brush off.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)