rub one's face with a brass candlestick (English, verb)
expansion: rub one's face with a brass candlestick (third-person singular simple present rubs one's face with a brass candlestick, present participle rubbing one's face with a brass candlestick, simple past and past participle rubbed one's face with a brass candlestick)
Senses:
glosses: To (prepare to) be very brazen or impudent.
tags: archaic
colloquial
Forms:
form: rubs one's face with a brass candlestick
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rubbing one's face with a brass candlestick
tags: participle
present
form: rubbed one's face with a brass candlestick
tags: participle
past
form: rubbed one's face with a brass candlestick
tags: past