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单词 as bold as brass
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as bold as brass
b. Colloquial phrase as bold as brass: very bold(ly) or impudent(ly); brazen-faced(ly).
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > impudent [phrase]
your saucepan runs over1699
as bold as brass1789
1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 162 He died damn'd hard and as bold as brass. An expression commonly used among the vulgar after returning from an execution.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. i. iv. 27 Master Sisty (coming out of the house as bold as brass) continued rapidly.
1922 S. J. Weyman Ovington's Bank xvii. 188 Seeing as he hung back I up to him bold as brass.
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