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Idioms and Phrases
Have an encounter or come in conflict with, as in This was not the first time that Bob had a brush with the law . This expression alludes to the noun brush in the sense of “a hostile collision,” a usage dating from about 1400.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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