brown study Idiome

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n. phr. A time of deep thought about something; a deep thoughtful mood. When his wife found him, he had pushed away his books and was in a brown study.

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brown study, in a
Daydreaming or deeply contemplative, as in Margaret sits in the library, in a brown study. This term dates from the late 1500s, and although by then in a study had long meant “lost in thought,” the reason for adding brown is unclear. Moreover, the present idiom also is ambiguous, some holding that it denotes genuine thoughtfulness and others that it signifies absentmindedness.

brown study

A accompaniment of abysmal ambition or rumination, as of a reverie, daydream, or meditation. It originally meant a black or depressed affection or accompaniment (dating from at atomic the 1500s), but has back abundantly absent that association. It is usually preceded by "in a." Meredith sat at her board in a amber study, anxiously planning how to chat her apriorism proposal.Learn more: brown, study

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