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298. Brush Aside / Brush By / Brush Past / Brush Down / Brush Off / Brush Up - Phrasal Verbs with Brush

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 10. 10.
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1)

Brush Aside : ~을 무시하다, 옆으로 밀쳐내다

effectively, just to push aside

to cast aside

to brush me aside, to push me aside

you can you this more idiomatically, to disregard, to ignore something

he brushed aside my objections, he just ignored them

to dismiss, he brush aside several important matters

brush aside all of things that were on the table

 

 

2)

Brush By / Brush Past : ~의 옆을 스치고 지나다

to walk past another person but touching them very slightly but normally by accident

can I just brush by?

can I just bruch past? there's not much room to pass, so I had to brush past me

brush past, brush by, notice inseparable

 

 

3)

Brush Down : ~을 깨끗히 정돈하다, 꾸짓다, 질책하다

to straighten yourself up

I fell on the ground so I brushed myself down and straighten up my clothes to tidy up youre appearance

he brushed down his suit

 

to brush somebody down, to tell them off

to scold

to reprimand

the teacher brushed me down for being late with my homework

he gave me a brushing down, he called me carpet and he'd chew me out 

the boss brushed me down for making some mistake at work

 

 

4)

Brush Off : (묻은걸)털다, 떼어내다, ~을 마구 무시하다

to brush off, I tried to brush off the dog fur or dog hair

I brushed the dirt off my suit

 

to brush somebody off, to get rid of them, to dismiss, to ignore as unimportant

to send away

to give somebody the brush off, there was a beautiful woman sitting by the bar and I tried to pick her up but she brushed me off easily, she gave me the brush off, go away

similar to brush aside

 

 

5)

Brush Up : 광내다, 손질하다, 닦다, (전에 배웠던 기술 또는 필요에 따라)갈고닦다, 연마하다, 다시 되살리다

literary to polish with a brush 

my bicycle was covered in mud and I brushed it up and it started to shine to make clean or bright with a brush

 

you can use this idiomatically, to improve something, to improve a skill

I need to brush up my English 

I need to brush up on my English before I go for my trip to London

to improve a skill that's either rusty or needs to be more developed

 

 

 

 

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