bold as brass
English
Adjective
- (simile) Very bold; very forward or impudent.
- 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:
- The twins were now playing in the most approved brotherly fashion till at last Master Jacky who was really as bold as brass there was no getting behind that deliberately kicked the ball as hard as ever he could down towards the seaweedy rocks.
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