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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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A consultant will order an aerial image from John Deere Agri Services, and a trained operator will fly over the land to take digital images of the field," explains Terry Brown, John Deere Agri Services account manager.
At it's opening week celebration the venue solidified its status as a world premier music venue with performances by James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, and of course, Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd.
Then there have been been the many tribute essays we've published to gifted authors who have passed on--Toni Cade Bambara, Sterling Brown, John Henrik Clarke, June Jordan, Audre Lorde and Margaret Walker among other beloved writers.
 
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