Meaning of live over the brush | Babel Free

Definitions

To cohabit without being married.

Northern-England, idiomatic

Examples

“I know what people think about the North. They think it's all muck and living over the brush with women like Elsie Tanner.”

“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.”

“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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