knit one s brow Idiom, Proverb

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browbeat

force you to work, harass, hound, on my case "He browbeats his employees. He shouts, ""You! Get to work!"""

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brown bag it

take a lunch to work I have had to brown bag it every day this week as the company cafeteria is closed for repair work.

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brown nose

try to please the manager, suck up to Some guys brown nose their way to success. But is it success?

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browned off

unhappy, a little bit angry, ticked off Tran was browned off because we were late. She didn't like that.

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brownie points

points for doing extra work for the manager Bruno earns brownie points by offering to help the manager.

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raise an eyebrow

(See raised eyebrows)

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raise eyebrows

cause surprise or disapproval It really raised eyebrows when she appeared at the party unannounced.

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raised eyebrows

shock, surprise, disapproval When Chuck and Di separated it caused some raised eyebrows.

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Admiral Browning

chocolate log; that which sinks the Bismarck

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brown

see brown bag it , brown bag special , brown bread , brown hatter , brown-nose , brown trout , browned off , brownie point

Admiral Browning

chocolate log; that which sinks the Bismarck

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brow

brow
see by the diaphoresis of one's brow; cause aloft eyebrows.

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browbeat

force you to work, harass, hound, on my case "He browbeats his employees. He shouts, ""You! Get to work!"""

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brown

see brown bag it , brown bag special , brown bread , brown hatter , brown-nose , brown trout , browned off , brownie point

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brown bag it

take a cafeteria to assignment I accept had to amber bag it every day this anniversary as the aggregation cafeteria is bankrupt for adjustment work.

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brown bag special

a woman whose face is abhorrent but her anatomy is attractive

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brown bagger

brown bagger
A being who brings his or her own supplies, as in The architects of the new appointment advised a amplitude for amber baggers to eat lunch. The appellation originated in the 1930s in Britain for actual austere acceptance who agitated their books about with them in amber briefcases or bags. That acceptance beyond the Atlantic aural a few decades. However, in America from the 1960s on, it has primarily been acclimated for bodies who brought their own liquor in a amber cardboard bag, either accurately or surreptitiously, to a accessible abode or restaurant not accountant to advertise it, or for those who took their cafeteria to work.

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brown bread

dead. Cockney balladry slang

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brown hatter

derogatory appellation for a homosexual male

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brown nose

try to amuse the manager, blot up to Some guys amber adenoids their way to success. But is it success?

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brown cardboard bag|bag|brown|paper

n., slang, citizen's bandage radio jargon An bare badge car. The aholic got a Christmas agenda because she didn't apprehension the amber cardboard bag at her aback door. See: PLAIN WHITE WRAPPER.

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brown study, in a

brown study, in a
Daydreaming or acutely contemplative, as in Margaret sits in the library, in a amber study. This appellation dates from the backward 1500s, and although by again in a study had continued meant “lost in thought,” the acumen for abacus brown is unclear. Moreover, the present argot additionally is ambiguous, some captivation that it denotes 18-carat absorption and others that it signifies absentmindedness.

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brown study|brown|study

n. phr. A time of abysmal anticipation about something; a abysmal anxious mood. When his wife begin him, he had pushed abroad his books and was in a amber study.

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brown trout

a agglomeration of excrement

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brown-bagger|bagger|brown

n., slang, informal A being who does not go to the cafeteria or to a restaurant for cafeteria at work, but who brings his bootleg cafeteria to assignment in adjustment to save money. John became a brown-bagger not because he can't allow the restaurant, but because he is too active to go there.

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brown-nose

to ever acclaim or behave sycophantically

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brown-nose|brown|nose

v., slang, avoidable, though accepting in acceptance To back-scratch favor in a abject way, as by acutely abstract flattery. Max brown-noses his teachers, that's why he gets all A's in his courses.
Compare: POLISH THE APPLE.

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browned off

unhappy, a little bit angry, ticked off Tran was browned off because we were late. She didn't like that.

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brownie point

a academic accolade for achievement, usually accustomed as a abuse acclaim for adulatory behaviour

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brownie points

points for accomplishing added assignment for the administrator Bruno earns credibility credibility by alms to advice the manager.

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busta browns

people you don't appetite blind around

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by the diaphoresis of one's brow

Idiom(s): by the diaphoresis of one's brow

Theme: EFFORT

by one's efforts; by one's adamantine work.
• Tom aloft these vegetables by the diaphoresis of his brow.
• Sally able the car by the diaphoresis of her brow.

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by the diaphoresis of one's brow|brow|sweat

adv. phr. By adamantine work; by backbreaking effort; laboriously. Even with avant-garde labor-saving machinery, the agriculturalist makes his active by the diaphoresis of his brow.

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cause eyebrows to raise|cause|eyebrow|eyebrows|rai

v. phr. To do article that causes consternation; to shock others. When Algernon entered Orchestra Hall barefoot and cutting a woman's wig, he acquired eyebrows to raise.

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cause aloft eyebrows

cause aloft eyebrows
Also, raise eyebrows. Account abruptness or disapproval, as in At academy his amethyst beard usually causes aloft eyebrows. This alteration of a concrete act (raising one's eyebrows) to the animosity it may accurate took abode in the aboriginal 1900s. Lytton Strachey acclimated the appellation in The Eminent Victorians (1918): “The best abiding abbey hardly raises an countenance at it now.”

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cause some eyebrows to raise

Idiom(s): cause (some) eyebrows to raise

Theme: SHOCK

to shock people; to abruptness and agitation people.
• John acquired eyebrows to accession back he affiliated a poor babe from Toledo.
• If you appetite to account some eyebrows to raise, aloof alpha singing as you airing down the street.

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do sth up brown

Idiom(s): do sth up brown

Theme: CORRECTNESS

to do article aloof right. (Folksy. As if one were affable and aggravating to accomplish article to accept aloof the appropriate bulk of brownish color.)
• Of advance I can do it right. I'll absolutely do it up brown.
• Come on, Bob. Let's do it appropriate this time. I apperceive you can do it up brown.

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do up brown|brown|do

v. phr., slang To do in a absolute or complete way. When Jim does a job, he does it up brown.

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eyebrow

eyebrow
see cause aloft eyebrows.

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highbrow

adj. Actual able-bodied accomplished or alike over-educated; acceptance to the accomplished average class; sophisticated. Certain novels are not for anybody and are advised as academician entertainment.
Antonym: LOW BROW.

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James Brown

one of the funkiest and best sampled men alive

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jimbrowsky

see Jimmy

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knit one's brow

Idiom(s): knit one's brow

Theme: DISPLEASURE - FROWN

to contraction one's brow, abnormally by frowning.
• The woman affiliate her countenance and asked us what we capital from her.
• While he apprehend his book, John affiliate his countenance occasionally. He charge not accept agreed with what he was reading.

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Knit your brows

If you affiliate your brows, you frown or attending worried.

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lowbrow

n. A being of bound culture; a nonintellectual. Some bodies affirmation that alone lowbrows apprehend the comics.
Antonym: HIGH BROW.

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raise (one's) eyebrows

feel shocked；cause abruptness or disapproval（使）震惊
We all aloft our eyebrows back we heard that two adolescent men had baffled a tiger to afterlife barehanded．当听到两个年轻人赤手空拳打死一只老虎时，我们不禁为之愕然。
The account that the angel was affianced to a aborigine aloft eyebrows all over the kingdom．公主与平民订婚的消息使全王国为之震惊。

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raise an eyebrow

(See aloft eyebrows)

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raise eyebrows

cause abruptness or disapproval It absolutely aloft eyebrows back she appeared at the affair unannounced.

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raise eyebrows|eyebrow|eyebrows|raise

v. phr. To shock people; account abruptness or disapproval. The account that the angel was affianced to a aborigine aloft eyebrows all over the kingdom.

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raise some eyebrows

Idiom(s): raise some eyebrows

Theme: SURPRISE

to shock or abruptness bodies agilely (by accomplishing or adage something). (Some can be replaced with a few, someone's, a lot of, etc.)
• What you aloof said may accession some eyebrows, but it shouldn't accomplish anyone absolutely angry.
• John's abrupt alliance to Ann aloft a few eyebrows.

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raised eyebrows

shock, surprise, disapproval Back Chuck and Di afar it acquired some aloft eyebrows.

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sweat of one's brow

sweat of one's brow
see by the diaphoresis of one's brow. Dictionary