tar people with the same brush

tar people with the same brush
consider specified people to have the same faults

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  • tar someone with the same brush — tar (someone) with the same brush see ↑tar, 2 • • • Main Entry: ↑brush tar (someone) with the same brush : to think that (someone) has the same bad qualities and deserves the same blame or criticism as another person because of being connected or …   Useful english dictionary

  • tar people with the same brush — consider specified people to have the same faults. → tar …   English new terms dictionary

  • tar with the same brush — phrasal : to mark or stain with the same fault or characteristic author and hero tended to melt into one … were tarred with the same brush William Troy * * * tar (someone) with the same brush see ↑tar, 2 • • • Main Entry: ↑brush t …   Useful english dictionary

  • tar with the same brush — If people are tarred with the same brush, they are said to have the same set of attributes or faults as someone they are associated with …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • be tarred with the same brush — phrase if all the people or things in a group are tarred with the same brush, you think or say they are all bad because you know some of them are bad Thesaurus: to be similar to, or the same as, something or someonesynonym Main entry: tar …   Useful english dictionary

  • tar — tar1 noun a dark, thick flammable liquid distilled from wood or coal, used in road making and for coating and preserving timber. ↘a similar substance formed by burning tobacco or other material. verb (tars, tarring, tarred) [usu. as adjective… …   English new terms dictionary

  • tar — tar1 [ta: US ta:r] n [U] [: Old English; Origin: teoru] 1.) a black substance, thick and sticky when hot but hard when cold, used especially for making road surfaces →↑coal tar 2.) a sticky substance that forms when tobacco burns, and that gets… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • tar — [[t]tɑ͟ː(r)[/t]] tars, tarring, tarred 1) N UNCOUNT Tar is a thick black sticky substance that is used especially for making roads. The oil has hardened to tar... They drove across the river to New Hampshire on a hot tar road. 2) N UNCOUNT Tar is …   English dictionary

  • tar — I UK [tɑː(r)] / US [tɑr] noun [uncountable] 1) a thick black liquid made from coal, used especially for making the surfaces of roads 2) a sticky poisonous substance from tobacco that people who smoke cigarettes get in their lungs low tar… …   English dictionary

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