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#* '''1922''', {{w|James Joyce}}, ''[[w:Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' Chapter 13 |
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#*: Place made me think of that I suppose. All tarred with the same brush Wiping pens in their stockings. |
#*: Place made me think of that I suppose. All tarred with the same brush Wiping pens in their stockings. |
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#* '''2008''', Terry Sweetman, "[https://archive.is/20130627220445/www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23816065-5012447,00.html Kevin Rudd's public service demands nothing new]," ''Courier-Mail'' (Australia), 6 June (retrieved 21 May 2009): |
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#*: And few would distinguish between state and federal public servants, '''tarring them with the same brush''' of disdain. |
#*: And few would distinguish between state and federal public servants, '''tarring them with the same brush''' of disdain. |
Revision as of 01:30, 23 August 2014
English
Verb
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive, idiomatic) To characterize using the same undesirable attribute, especially unjustly.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ch. 6:
- They are both tarred with a dirty brush, and I can't have the Fellowships tarred with the same brush.
- 1900, E. Phillips Oppenheim, A Millionaire of Yesterday, ch. 41:
- Were you tarred with the same brush as those canting snobs who doomed a poor old man to a living death?
- 1920, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, ch. 14:
- Susan still persisted in thinking that poets and tramps were tarred with the same brush.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- Place made me think of that I suppose. All tarred with the same brush Wiping pens in their stockings.
- 2008, Terry Sweetman, "Kevin Rudd's public service demands nothing new," Courier-Mail (Australia), 6 June (retrieved 21 May 2009):
- And few would distinguish between state and federal public servants, tarring them with the same brush of disdain.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ch. 6: