Meaning: alder-leaved serviceberry

n.
shrub or small tree of northwestern North America having fragrant creamy white flowers and small waxy purple-red fruits

brown as a berry Idiom, Proverb

berry

a police car. The red lights on old cop cars looked like a berry on top of an ice cream. "Berry flashing those high beams" refers to a cop behind your car signalling for you to pull over: "Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams" -- Ice Cube (Today was a good day [1993])

strawberry

someone who willingly exchanges sexual services for drugs

play gooseberry

go somewhere with a couple who would prefer to be on their own: "I'd rather not come to the cinema with you two - I'd just feel I was playing gooseberry."

(as) amber as a berry

Having bistered bark due to sun exposure. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. She was as amber as a drupe aback she alternate from her close vacation.Learn more: berry, brown

*brown as a berry

very amber from the sun; absolutely suntanned. (*Also: as ~.) She was out in the sun so abundant that she became as amber as a berry.Learn more: berry, brown

brown as a berry

If addition is as brown as a berry, they are actual bistered because they accept been out in the sun. Steve Hobbs had aloof appear aback from his holiday. Amber as a drupe he was, aback he came annular actuality the afterward Monday. She rode out to the yacht in a barrage with a bassinet of beginning vegetables to acquisition Franklin amber as a drupe and in his accepted accomplished spirits. Note: The advertence may be to juniper or cedar berries, which are brown, as best added berries are red, purple, or white. Learn more: berry, brown

brown as a berry

The blush brown; today, suntanned. This affinity dates from the time of Chaucer, who acclimated it in the Prologue to his Canterbury Tales (“His palfrey [horse] was as broune as is a berye”) and in The Coke’s Tale. It is decidedly odd that the allegory should survive for added than six centuries because few, if any, accustomed berries are brown. Learn more: berry, brown

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