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live over the brush

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Possibly ultimately derived from broomstick wedding, with broomstick meaning ersatz or sham. Often said to be derived from early British or Romani wedding practices, in which a couple could become married outside the Church by leaping a broom or brush, but no evidence exists for such a ceremony.

動詞

live over the brush

(Northern England, idiomatic) To cohabit without being married.
- 1982, Peter Tinniswood, The Home Front, page 10:
  
  I know what people think about the North. They think it's all muck and living over the brush with women like Elsie Tanner.
- 1991, Punch, volume 300, page 134:
  
  After the birth of their son, Stanley, the couple moved to Bradford and "lived over the brush" in West Bowling in a back-to-back terraced house.
- 2013, Gilda O'Neill, Just Around the Corner, ISBN 1448185238:
  
  I was saying to my Albert, I wouldn't be surprised if him and that so-called wife of his was living over the brush.

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