| 单词 | to paint with a broad brush | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto paint with a broad (also wide) brush  P1.   intransitive.  to paint with a broad (also wide) brush: to describe or portray someone or something in very general terms, avoiding or neglecting the finer details; to make a general or sweeping statement.Cf. broad-brush adj. 1. Π 1808    W. Mitford Hist. Greece 		(new ed.)	 IV. xxxii. 147 		(note)	  				Plutarch, who commonly paints with a broad brush.., calls Nypsius's troops altogether barbarians. 1907    Spectator 9 Nov. 698/2  				Lord Curzon in the extraordinarily interesting Romanes Lecture..paints with a broad brush, and that is precisely what a British audience just now requires. 1976    Forbes 15 Dec. 78/1  				Readers are interested in ideas about individual stocks. I will paint with a broad brush because I wish to mention many issues. 1992    Albuquerque 		(New Mexico)	 Jrnl. 27 Dec.  f8/5  				McWilliams' sketchbook ends up demeaning the press..and those troops he means to honor, painting everyone with a wide brush of undesireable [sic] traits. 2013    K. E. Drexler Radical Abundance iii. 28  				In saying this, I am painting with a broad brush. < as lemmas | 
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