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Значение идиомы brazen it out
[brazen it out] {v. phr.} To pretend you did nothing wrong; be suspected, accused, or scolded without admitting you did wrong; act as if not guilty.
The teacher found a stolen pen that the girl had in her desk, but the girl brazened it out; she said someone else must have put it there.
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