单词 | as bold as brass |
释义 | > as lemmasas bold as brass b. Colloquial phrase as bold as brass: very bold(ly) or impudent(ly); brazen-faced(ly). ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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