Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tar with the same brush

/ˈtaɹ wɪ‿ðə seɪm ˈbɹʌʃ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables: tar with- the same brush
IPA: /ˈtaɹ wɪ‿ðə seɪm ˈbɹʌʃ/

35

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To characterize (someone or something) using the same undesirable attribute, especially unjustly.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The C Party have tarred themselves with the same brush as the B Party."
"The merchants of London, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Birmingham, were tarred, one and all, with the same brush."
"We may mark that gentleman with black, at all events, said Leandro Perez. We may indeed, replied the Devil; and you may tar his nearest neighbour with the same brush, while you are about it—an original of an auditor, who, because he keeps a carriage, blushes whenever he is obliged to put his foot into a public vehicle."
"They are both tarred with a dirty brush, and I can't have the Fellowships tarred with the same brush."
"Were you tarred with the same brush as those canting snobs who doomed a poor old man to a living death?"
"Susan still persisted in thinking that poets and tramps were tarred with the same brush— […]"

Etymology

From tar (“to coat with tar; to besmirch”), in the sense of two or more persons or things being soiled with the same thing.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtaɹ wɪ‿ðə seɪm ˈbɹʌʃ/
British English: /ˈtaː wɪ‿ðə seɪm ˈbɹʌʃ/

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

tars with the same brush (present, singular) tarring with the same brush (participle, present) tarred with the same brush (participle, past) tarred with the same brush (past)

Frequently Paired Words

pigeonhole

Synonyms

paint with the same brush tar with the same stick

Rhymes With

rush brush crush flush blush lush hush plush mush slush thrush gush

Questions

How do you pronounce tar with the same brush?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtaɹ wɪ‿ðə seɪm ˈbɹʌʃ/.
What does tar with the same brush mean?: To characterize (someone or something) using the same undesirable attribute, especially unjustly.
Where does tar with the same brush come from?: From tar (“to coat with tar; to besmirch”), in the sense of two or more persons or things being soiled with the same thing.

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