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Brush down   /brəʃ daʊn/   Listen
Brush down

verb
1.
Reprimand.  Synonym: tell off.





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"Brush down" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kazan seldom refused to take guidance from her. They trotted away side by side and by the time Sandy was creeping up snake-like with the wind in his face, Kazan was peering from the fringe of river brush down upon the canoe on the white strip of sand. When Sandy returned, after an hour of futile stalking, two fresh tracks led straight down to the canoe. He looked at them in amazement and then a sinister grin wrinkled his ugly face. He chuckled ...
— Kazan • James Oliver Curwood
... I found Pomp busy with a bucket of water and a brush down at the bottom of the garden, where he was ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Brush down" :   take to task, call down, reproof, trounce, berate, remonstrate, have words, scold, call on the carpet, lecture, lambast, chide, jaw, rag, bawl out, chew up, lambaste, dress down, reprimand, chew out, rebuke


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