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Charlie Brown's Christmas tree en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtʃɑːli bɹaʊns ˈkɹɪsməs tɹiː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtʃɑɹli bɹaʊns ˈkɹɪsməs tɹi/ (General-American)
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Etymology

See Charlie Brown tree.

Meanings

1. Synonym of Charlie Brown tree.
   • Oh yes, 'twas the night before Christmas, / and it was a horrible site to see. / Things were looking sadder than Charlie Brown's / Christmas tree. / But hark! There was hope, and all was not lost. 2002, Wendell J. Powell I, “’Twas the Nite before Christmas – 1997”, in 12 Spiritual Voices, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 23:
   • Walking around the dwarfed trees with bare spots throughout their branches, I commented that they reminded me of Charlie Brown's Christmas trees. 2017, Marilyn Peake, chapter 14, in Blood and Ashes: A Paranormal Romance Novel, [s.n.]: Marilyn Peake:
   • When Rick laughs near me, the ground quakes because he is a California redwood, and I am Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Now that I have won, he will not laugh. He will instead quietly pay for a very expensive dinner in a restaurant with no prices on the menu … and I will laugh. Though the story of the bet is true, beyond that has been Rick's earnest encouragement for me to move this book forward. 2009, Steven L. Layne, “Acknowledgments”, in Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers, Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, pages xv–xvi:

Forms

Synonyms

Charlie Brown tree