prendere per la barba

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İtalyanca - İngilizce
beard
A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded

Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.

To grow hair on the chin and jaw
{v} to pull by the beard, oppose, take off
a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw
Cutting the beard The Turks think it a dire disgrace to have the beard cut Slaves who serve in the seraglio have clean chins, as a sign of their servitude Kissing the beard In Turkey wives kiss their husband, and children their father on the beard To make one's beard (Chaucer) This is the French “Faire la barbe à quelqu'un,” and refers to a barber's taking hold of a man's beard to dress it, or to his shaving the chin of a customer To make one's beard is to have him wholly at your mercy I told him to his beard I told him to his face, regardless of consequences; to speak openly and fearlessly
The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat
The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster
To oppose to the face; to set at defiance
n jenggot
tuft of strong filaments by which e g a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt
An imposition; a trick
The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes
prendere per la barba