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Bramble bush

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Bram´ble bush`    (b
1.(Bot.) The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.
He jumped into a bramble bush
And scratched out both his eyes.
- Mother Goose.
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Noun1.bramble bush - any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits
genus Rubus, Rubus - large genus of brambles bearing berries
bush lawyer, lawyer bush, lawyerbush, Rubus australis, Rubus cissoides - stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth
Rubus saxatilis, stone bramble - European trailing bramble with red berrylike fruits
blackberry bush, blackberry - bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
raspberry, raspberry bush - woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
bramble - any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines


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As Karl Llewellyn notes in his lovely book The Bramble Bush (1981), law school's first year requires you to check your conscience at the door and learn to think and reason like a lawyer.
The last thing this country needs is to have government, which has enough difficulty trying to carry out the purely secular functions delegated to it in the federal and state constitutions, grab the tar baby of religion and jump into the bramble bush of sectarian controversy.
I struggled through the alphabet as if it had been a bramble bush, getting considerably worried and scratched by every letter.
 
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