tarbrush

What Portnoy learns is that discarding the respectable conventions of the bourgeoisie and taking up the tarbrush of Bohemia makes it impossible ever to have the life that he yearns for most deeply.

The form of modern degradation 2009

What Portnoy learns is that discarding the respectable conventions of the bourgeoisie and taking up the tarbrush of Bohemia makes it impossible ever to have the life that he yearns for most deeply.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

“Sar-púsh” (headcover) also called “Fez” from its old home; and “tarbrush” by the travelling

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Hell had he a bit more of a "touch of the tarbrush" about him he could have played the "Is it cos I is black" card for a huge payout and apology from the Passport Agency.

Archive 2008-07-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

The sort of bloke who can bleat on about rights for hours yet thinks that anyone who has a touch of the tarbrush about them should be locked up for 42 days, after all you never know what they might do?

Archive 2008-07-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

Get the tarbrush out of the way, I always say, so there it is.

Mumbai Twitter Conspiracy Blues 2008

Michael had always said that he had a touch of the tarbrush in him.

Dangerous Lady Cole, Martina 1992

He had never told me about them, in his determination to be as English as possible, carrying the touching charade so far as to believe that I would be adversely affected by the knowledge of "a touch of the tarbrush."

An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

I admit there is no stain in our side of the family, but people are malicious and notoriously careless in working out relationships, and — a touch of the tarbrush!

Sweet Danger Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1933

I admit there is no stain in our side of the family, but people are malicious and notoriously careless in working out relationships, and — a touch of the tarbrush!

Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931