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rub one's face with a brass candlestick (三人称単数 現在形 rubs one's face with a brass candlestick, 現在分詞 rubbing one's face with a brass candlestick, 過去形および過去分詞形 rubbed one's face with a brass candlestick)

1. (colloquial, archaic) To (prepare to) be very brazen or impudent.
   • 1853, Walter William Broom, Many Botanical Secrets (page 4)
     Every step you take you proclaim yourself the father of him who rubbed his face with a brass candlestick
   • 1873, The Gentleman's Magazine (volume 11, page 577)
     "Why, Walsher," said Mr. Stubber, "how many times a day do you rub your face with a brass candlestick? Why, I lent you a pony when you were stumped, and you carried off a cool hundred."
   • 1894, Werner's Magazine (volume 16, page 71)
     After dinner, I metaphorically rubbed my face with a brass candlestick and became bold enough to ask him to let me read something for him, for the sake of his suggestions and criticism.

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• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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