What Does Tarred with the Same Brush Meaning?

Having the same faults or bad qualities, as in He may be lazy, but if you ask me his friends are all tarred with the same brush. This term is thought to come from sheep farming, where the animals' sores were treated by brushing tar over them, and all the sheep in a flock were treated in the same way.

Is tarred with the same brush racist?

A There's nothing directly racist in its history, though there are such huge sensitivities in the United States and elsewhere over any expression that sounds as though it might be (as, for example, with words and phrases such as niggardly, call a spade a spade, and so on), that the reaction of your colleague is ...

What does not tarred with the same brush?

Meaning: to think that somebody has the same bad qualities as others in a similar surrounding. to characterize someone with the same undesirable attribute as another. believe to be having the same faults.