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| English | Russian |
| brush up against | касаться вопроса (Throughout his trip, Francis brushed up against the issues of migration and the war in Ukraine multilinguist) |
| brush up on | дорабатывать (Acruxia) |
| brush up on | совершенствовать (например: Mary had to brush up on her Spanish before going to South America. Acruxia) |
| colour everyone with the same brush | стричь всех под одну гребёнку (...although I agree with the fundamental attitude of my group, who are unhappy about the fact that everyone is being tarred with the same brush.  dict.cc Andrey Truhachev) |
| have a brush | вступить в конфликт (with: He'd had a few brushes with the police. – У него несколько раз были проблемы с полицией.) |
| paint with a broad brush | описывать в общих чертах (To describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations. reverso.net Andrey Truhachev) |
| paint with the same brush | стричь под одну гребёнку (trinity-hf) |
| paint with the same brush | грести под одну гребёнку (trinity-hf) |
| tar all ... with one brush | стричь всех ... под одну гребёнку (New York Times Alex_Odeychuk) |
| with the same broad brush | не одним миром мазаны (We should not paint things with the same broad brush. Alexsword92) |