You may know about brushing your hair with a brush or that you brush the dirt off a seat before you sit down, but do you know these other brush words?
Brush with
A brief encounter with something notable or unpleasant is a brush with. It's used for situations in which you experience or nearly experience something.
Being interviewed by a local TV station was my only brush with fame.
If for example you nearly die, you have a brush with death.