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Shameless, audacious, impudent. For example, No one had invited her to the wedding, but she showed up at the church, bold as brass . This alliterative simile plays on brass meaning “shamelessness.” [c. 1700]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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