well-burnished
/ˌwɛlˈbəːnɪʃt/adjective
Carefully or thoroughly polished (literal and figurative ).
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. From well + burnished.
- the Graces
- the Grail
- the Grampians
- the Grand Manner
- the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence)
- the Great
- the great and the good
- the great Australian dream
- the Great Depression
- the Great Game
- the Great Mogul
- the (great) unwashed
- the green-eyed monster
- the Greensand
- the Grenadines
- the Grim Reaper
- the groves of Academe
- the Gulf
- the half of it
- the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
- the Hanse
- the hard way
- the heavens open
- the heavy mob
- the Herdsman