We look like two brush salesmen toting sample cases as we finally make it to the elevator.

His eyes were bright and his mouth firm, like a brush salesman sizing up a prospect.

Thank God it was David who'd had to deal with Marvin - Pat couldn't even say no to a door-todoor brush salesman.

In a short story published in 1962, the phrase is attributed to "a brush salesman."

House to house, like the Fuller's brush salesman or carbon-crusted chimney-sweep of yore.

I didn't come all this way to get turned off like a brush salesman.

I'm going to see the inside of that tower if I have to get inside posing as a brush salesman.

He was speaking to me as if I were a door-to-door brush salesman.

Leonard Philips had the appearance of a country judge and the demeanor of a bass-voiced 605 brush salesman.

The man tells George that he should take the satchel with him and pretend to be a door-to-door brush salesman when he sees anyone.