Idioms for brush

    get the brush, to be rejected or rebuffed: She greeted Jim effusively, but I got the brush.
    give the brush, to ignore, rebuff, etc.: If you're still angry with him, give him the brush.

Origin of brush

1
1350–1400; (noun) Middle English brusshe, probably to be identified with brush2, if orig. sense was implement made from twigs, etc., culled from brushwood; (v.) Middle English brushen to hasten, rush, probably < Old French brosser to travel (through brush), verbal derivative of broce (see brush2)

OTHER WORDS FROM brush

brush·a·ble, adjective brush·er, noun brush·like, adjective un·brush·a·ble, adjective

British Dictionary definitions for brush aside (1 of 3)

brush aside

brush away


verb

(tr, adverb) to dismiss without consideration; disregard

British Dictionary definitions for brush aside (2 of 3)

brush 1
/ (brʌʃ) /

noun

verb

Derived forms of brush

brusher, noun brushlike, adjective

Word Origin for brush

C14: from Old French broisse, perhaps from broce brush ²

British Dictionary definitions for brush aside (3 of 3)

brush 2
/ (brʌʃ) /

noun

a thick growth of shrubs and small trees; scrub
land covered with scrub
broken or cut branches or twigs; brushwood
wooded sparsely populated country; backwoods

Word Origin for brush

C16 (dense undergrowth), C14 (cuttings of trees): from Old French broce, from Vulgar Latin bruscia (unattested) brushwood

Idioms and Phrases with brush aside (1 of 2)

brush aside

Disregard, ignore, as in The teacher brushed aside our questions.

Idioms and Phrases with brush aside (2 of 2)

brush