bold as brass

Idioms  

1. 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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bold as brass

“As long as I remember,” he says, looking directly at the camera, bold as brass, “I wanted to be someone else. Someone who was acceptable.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

There you are with your comrades, every month, bold as brass, unapologetically coming to do your disruptive thing to me and my sisters and we don’t breathe a word.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2019

Far from being scared, these artists are bold as brass.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2014

There in the weekly paper stood the advertisement, bold as brass.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You got to treat a dog good if you want him to stick around,” I say, bold as brass.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor