单词 | to paint with a broad brush |
释义 | > as lemmasto paint with a broad (also wide) brush P1. intransitive. to paint with a broad (also wide) brush: to describe or portray someone or something in very general terms, avoiding or neglecting the finer details; to make a general or sweeping statement.Cf. broad-brush adj. 1. Π 1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxii. 147 (note) Plutarch, who commonly paints with a broad brush.., calls Nypsius's troops altogether barbarians. 1907 Spectator 9 Nov. 698/2 Lord Curzon in the extraordinarily interesting Romanes Lecture..paints with a broad brush, and that is precisely what a British audience just now requires. 1976 Forbes 15 Dec. 78/1 Readers are interested in ideas about individual stocks. I will paint with a broad brush because I wish to mention many issues. 1992 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 27 Dec. f8/5 McWilliams' sketchbook ends up demeaning the press..and those troops he means to honor, painting everyone with a wide brush of undesireable [sic] traits. 2013 K. E. Drexler Radical Abundance iii. 28 In saying this, I am painting with a broad brush. < as lemmas |
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