Idiom
paint with a broad brush
Meaning
To describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Do not paint with a broad brush when you talk about other people.”
“It is unfair to paint with a broad brush and say that all teenagers are lazy.”
“The critic was accused of painting with a broad brush, ignoring the subtle nuances that made each individual performance in the play unique.”
Examples
simple
“Do not paint with a broad brush when you talk about other people.”
contextual
“It is unfair to paint with a broad brush and say that all teenagers are lazy.”
complex
“The critic was accused of painting with a broad brush, ignoring the subtle nuances that made each individual performance in the play unique.”
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