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jas

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Can anyone tell me what the expression is for giving everything a bad name because of one thing? It's something about a brush, but the rest escapes me...
I hope the antipodean lot will be able to help with this one, since any sensible person on this side of the planet is either asleep or out clubbing at this hour.

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Bob

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Re: What's the expression?

Reply #1 on: April 18, 2006, 02:51:55 AM

Something about painting the world with a single brush stroke?

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jas

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Re: What's the expression?

Reply #2 on: April 18, 2006, 10:03:28 AM

That's not the one I was thinking of, though it's similar... Oh well. I'll just have to come up with something else!

Jas

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Bob

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Re: What's the expression?

Reply #3 on: April 18, 2006, 11:11:21 AM

Paintint with a broad brush?

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gilad

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Re: What's the expression?

Reply #4 on: April 18, 2006, 02:37:59 PM

to be painted or tarred with the same brush?

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Re: What's the expression?

Reply #5 on: April 18, 2006, 02:45:42 PM

Does someone know a site with english expressions?

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johnny-boy

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Re: What's the expression?

Reply #6 on: April 18, 2006, 03:34:19 PM

“A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.”

“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.”

“We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush”

“One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush”

There are more on this site:
https://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/with/

Best, John

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