Example sentences of "tar with the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Within the overall picture , too , are many successful companies that jib at being tarred with the brush of failure and decline . |
2 | Since the schemes in question paid the male rate for the job , they can not be tarred with the brush of cheap labour . |
3 | Thus , although W. R. T. Skinner of the Yorkshire Electric Power Company was tarred with the company 's extreme anti-union reputation ( and not wanted by Citrine or the new Yorkshire Board ) the chairman-designate of the South Eastern Area Board was able to persuade Gaitskell to make him his deputy chairman , a position in which Skinner served loyally and efficiently for more than a decade , before himself succeeding to the chairmanship of that Board . |
4 | In any case , when someone gossips well they are called a wit or a conversationalist ; only those who gossip badly are tarred with the appellation ‘ Gossip ’ . |
5 | Despite representing a normally staunch Democrat state , being under investigation by a host of law enforcement agencies for various instances of corruption and abuse of power and tarred with The Bush Factor Thing , this abrasive native Noo Yawker was running neck and neck with his Democrat rival , attorney-general Robert Abrams . |