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View synonyms for hold no brief for
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Refuse to support, dislike, as in I hold no brief for liars . This term is a negative version of the legal expression hold a brief for , meaning “to support or defend a position by argument.” The noun brief has been used in this way since the 1200s.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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