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What does "Brand" in this phrase "i want a brand new house" mean?
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@Aroneitorrr
Good question. The expression is – “brand-new“ – and it comes from the mark that a hot brand makes on a horse, or other livestock.
When you are branding animals, you heat up a branding iron, and push it into their flesh – at that moment, it is new in a way which it will never be again. It is hot, the animal is in pain, there is a smell of the burning flesh, and the wound sticks out from the body.
This wound just happened. It is totally new. Brand-new.
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A house that has never been lived in before by a previous owner. Newly built.
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It can be something other yhan a house also, that was just an example. "Brand new" could be referring to a new pair of shoes you just bought or a car.
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