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have a brush with
Idioms and Phrases
Have an encounter or come in conflict with, as in This was not the first time that Bob had a brush with the law . This expression alludes to the noun brush in the sense of “a hostile collision,” a usage dating from about 1400.Example Sentences
For many users who have a brush with the law, court-mandated treatment and the threat of worse outcomes in the future are enough to set them on the right track.
It can be awe-inspiring for a young player to have a brush with a famous college coach, such as when Edge met Penn State Coach James Franklin at a camp.
Now Trump toadies have a brush with which to tar any woman who might testify that the president’s long history of crude boasting is more than mere “locker room talk.”
He was about to have a brush with greatness he'd remember for the rest of his life.
She wrote, “Did I have a brush with the Master? You bet. But I beat him off.”
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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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