touch of the tar brush

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Real or suspected African or Asian distant ancestry in a person of predominantly Caucasian ancestry; mixed racial heritage (e.g. Afro-Caribbean or, to a lesser extent, South Asian in background or appearance). informal
    — She was quite young—not more than about twenty-five—and sort of dark and slinky-looking, if you know what I mean. Quite nice-looking in a kind of way, but rather as though she might have what my mother used to call "a touch of the tar-brush."

词形变化

touches of the tar brush plural

词源

Believed to be of British origin.
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