brainwash with
brainwash (someone) with (something)
To intentionally alter someone's thoughts or beliefs by using a particular idea or method. Commercials brainwash us with subliminal messages that make us go out and buy stuff. The cult leader brainwashed his followers with increasingly distorted information.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
brainwash someone with something
to drive specific knowledge or propaganda into someone's brain, by constant repetition and psychological conditioning. The dictator brainwashed his people with lie after lie. You have brainwashed yourself with your own propaganda.
See also: brainwash
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- brainwash
- brainwash (someone) with (something)
- cover
- grab (someone or something) by the throat
- grab someone by the throat
- grab someone/something by the throat
- get someone's dander up, to
- help (someone) along
- help along
- die on