bold as brass

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发音

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Very bold; very forward or impudent.

词源

Popularly supposed to have originated in reference to Brass Crosby, Lord Mayor of London in the 1770s, who was bold enough to defy the British parliament. However, this origin theory is dismissed by some as bogus.

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