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a/(one's) brush with (something)

1. To have a brief encounter with something, especially that which could be harmful. We had a brush with a mountain lion in our yard this morning. Tom's brush with the cops yesterday has left him really rattled. I had a brush with death when I was in that car accident.

2. To have a brief or fleeting experience of something, especially that which is very positive or enjoyable. My one brush with fame came after my second novel became a surprise bestseller. It was over pretty quickly though, as the rest of my books have never sold as well. I'm just happy to have had a brush with true love, even if it was over all too soon. His one brush with greatness was when he won the state championships in wrestling when he was a senior in high school—and he still talks about it any chance he gets.

brush

n. an encounter; a close shave. My brush with the bear was so close I could smell its breath—which was vile, I might add.

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If you are more interested in killing coyotes than being a skilled rifleman, a shotgun is mighty effective, particularly in brushy country.

A howlin' good time

A McMinnville man was hit by a stray bullet and critically injured Saturday afternoon in a brushy area southwest of Eugene.

Shooting southwest of Eugene critically injures McMinnville man

One of the finest, #448, 1995-99, is filled by a gorgeous, intensely orange-and-blue mass of forms; in the 1ower left, a direct, brushy white stroke drifts across a black inset.

DAVID REED

The remains were discovered in the 78000 block of Highway 99 in a thick, brushy area, possibly mowed by the railroad within the last year, Lane County Sheriff Lt.

Remains found outside Cottage Grove

Basically, Salle has two styles: the brushy, modeled style of the nudes, which pays equal homage to James Rosenquist's billboard manner and to generic beaux-arts training, and the expressionist maudit manner of the overlays that alludes to Picabia, Orozco, and Siqueiros.

Signs and the times

A more intensive visual inspection of that area led workers Monday afternoon to a brushy, wooded area along the reservoir, where water was bubbling up along the line before mixing with other water in the area and draining into the lake.

City workers solve mystery of disappearing drinking water

We know that, sometime in the early '60s, Warhol showed Emile de Antonio an uninflected painting of a Coca-Cola bottle alongside a very brushy painting of the same subject, asking which path he should follow.

"Andy Warhol: Drawings, 1942-1987."

GOSHEN - Fire struck twice Wednesday just south of Goshen, first in a brushy area adjacent to the Cone Lumber Co., then in piles of logs waiting to be chipped at the nearby Wood Recovery plant, which chips leftover sawmill logs for paper production.

Flames leap from brush, logs

In this show the weaknesses of the Bay Area brand of brushy abstraction were readily apparent: riskless, cutesy paint application that says, in effect, "Hey, here's a surefire way to cover the canvas!" (James Kelly), overdesign smacking of mosaic coffee-table tops (John Saccaro), and kitchen-towel color schemes (Sonia Getchoff).

"The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism." (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California)

Always visually erudite - fusing his interest in the poses of classical statuary, for example, with his acute understanding of male body-language - he now lays out dramatic constructions of bare canvas, brushy, tenuous patches of black, and areas of solid but washed-out, acidy color.

Leon Golub

Writhing human figures are always a the actual center of Itatani's dizzying orbs of matter, and are painted in brushy tones of gray, black, and white.

Michiko Itatani

If the brushy monochromes of Chong-Hyun Ha do in fact relate to the late New York School, as they appear to, this Korean artist's willingness to go up against a dominant Western art style mirrors the Little Tiger's strong intrusion of late into the Western market economy.

Venice the menace

Lamar, Suite 190 in Austin, the office is now located at 893 North IH 35, Suite 120, Round Rock, in the Brushy Creek Professional Center just off I-35 near Round Rock Memorial Park.