Example sentences of "with the [det] brush " in BNC.

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1 Pound here anticipates , and paints in a blacker hue , Edmund Wilson 's recognition that Eliot is ‘ a poet of the American Puritan temperament ’ , and Pound claims to be tarred with the same brush himself .
2 I was tarred with the same brush , to a certain extent .
3 WHILE your article about how little revenue from charity Christmas cards reached the charities concerned was accurate for certain card retailers , it tarred many hundreds of volunteers with the same brush , to the detriment of the wonderful charities they support .
4 Not that it was young Mr Gotobed 's fault , his father was alive then , and in charge of the mine , but Mr Evans says all that family was tarred with the same brush , only thinking of profits .
5 I thought about the gin , but that was tarred with the same brush .
6 But already there were signs that the mood was changing , that to the people all uniforms were alike ; the Army was now being tarred with the same brush as the Tans , and its patrols — as his own men had recently learned — were no longer immune from IRA attacks .
7 Wise up Buddy , and — sorry to use a cliché here — do n't tar everybody with the same brush .
8 Not that I 'm surprised ; they 're all tarred with the same brush , that family ; the boy 's no better and no worse than his mother or his uncle .
9 You 're tarred with the same brush .
10 Roman looked at her in a way that made Claudia want to curl up and die , and she was n't on the receiving end , only tarred with the same brush .
11 ‘ You do n't think you 're tarred with the same brush , do you ? ’
12 You 've made it very clear that you think I 'm tarred with the same brush as William and that 's fine by me !
13 But it 's not fair to tar every woman with the same brush . ’
14 Wise up Buddy , and — sorry to use a cliché here — do n't tar everybody with the same brush .
15 I mean it just appalled me I think that we are all of us , if you like to a degree , tarred with the same brush are n't we ?
16 If this happens in Oxford they 'll be tarred with the same brush .
17 Some youngsters have protested , claiming that they should not all ‘ be tarred with the same brush ’ .
18 So I 'm disagreeing with what you 're saying , because you , you 're tarring them all with the same brush .
19 I 'm not looking Paul do n't tar everybody with the same brush .
20 Pardon , do n't tar everybody with the same brush .
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