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brush aside
verb
- tr, adverb to dismiss without consideration; disregard
Idioms and Phrases
Disregard, ignore, as in The teacher brushed aside our questions .Example Sentences
Then he threw the brush aside, apparently taking no more interest in that over which he had worked so persistently.
Cyrène came out and proceeded to brush aside the dust between the piles of metal.
But the Turkish Knight was denied even the chance of achieving this by the fluttering ribbons which she dared not brush aside.
It was cruel of him, in that insufferably self-assured tone, to brush aside my wishes.
A queen gracious rather than a queen regnant; a queen to grant petitions rather than one to brush aside the petitioners.'
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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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