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brush (up) against someone or something to touch someone or something lightly in passing. I brushed up against the freshly painted wall as I passed. I guess I brushed against Walter as I walked by. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Art often appears to be about money and power, and inevitably those who brush against the materialist side of it can get pretty disgusted. From the latest Armani jacket, lined in chiffon and long enough to gently brush against the hips, to the featherweight cocktail dresses and soft, sequined eveningwear, the collection was all about airy elegance. The lives of a number of people, employees and students, in its Histology Department do not so much collide as fleetingly brush against in each other in a narrative that, unlike that of The Yakoubian Building, seems to have been created out of bricks themselves solid enough but precariously joined togehter with cement far too sparsely applied. |
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