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bold as brass



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Idioms and Phrases

Shameless, audacious, impudent. For example, No one had invited her to the wedding, but she showed up at the church, bold as brass . This alliterative simile plays on brass meaning “shamelessness.” [c. 1700]
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Example Sentences

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And making his way over with him, bold as brass, was Cook.

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“As long as I remember,” he says, looking directly at the camera, bold as brass, “I wanted to be someone else. Someone who was acceptable.”

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Beth Kweeday, 24, who works at Bold as Brass Tattoo Company in Liverpool, had the idea after colleagues made jokes about her daily visits to the chain.

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But just weeks later, a report came of “seven vassals of the Great Turk, all men of the sea, the spies of the princes,” walking as bold as brass around the plaza of the town of Purificación.

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He says she has “una faccia di bronzo” – a phrase similar to “bold as brass” in English.

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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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