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have a brush with (something) To encounter, or nearly encounter, someone or something. I had a brush with death when I was in that car accident. Oh, you'll have a brush with the law sooner or later if you keep robbing houses.
a situation in which you experience something, or almost experience something, especially something unpleasant: have a brush with death Jim had a brush with death (= was nearly killed) on the motorway.
a situation in which you experience something, or almost experience something, especially something unpleasant: Jim had a brush with death (= was almost killed) on the freeway. Was that your first brush with the law (= experience of being in trouble with the police)?
Have an encounter or come in conflict with, as in This was not the first time that Bob had a brush with the law . This expression alludes to the noun brush in the sense of “a hostile collision,” a usage dating from about 1400.
To encounter, or nearly encounter, someone or something. I had a brush with death when I was in that car accident. Oh, you'll have a brush with the law sooner or later if you keep robbing houses. See also: brush, have. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2024 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved. have a brush with something.
Definition of “Have a brush with” To have come dangerously close to. Like when say a Tiger passed you just close enough for the whiskers to “brush” up against you, but not bump into. You had had a “brush with” the tiger. |Come very close to: he had a brush with death when he almost drowned. |Usually it refers to something dangerous.
