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brown
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be as brown as a berry (British & Australian)
if someone is as brown as a berry their skin has become much darker because of the effects of the sun. She's as brown as a berry after a month in Greece.

brown-bag

brown-bagging - taking your own food, usually in a brown paper bag, to eat in the middle of the day when you are not at home. We had our meeting over a brown-bag lunch. (always before noun)

brown-bagging (American, informal)

taking your own food, usually in a brown paper bag, to eat in the middle of the day when you are not at home. We've stopped brown-bagging - it's too cold now to eat in the park.

brown-nose (informal)

to try too hard to please someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in a way that other people find unpleasant. The rest of the class were sick of watching him brown-nose.

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Tours and record dates with Ray Brown, James Moody, Steve Swallow, Larry Carlton, Paul Motian, Hall, and Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen followed.
Coming from farther afield, including the fields of social studies, literary criticism, and creative writing are the likes of LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka), Houston Baker, Sterling Brown, James Baldwin, S.
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