briar

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Editorial note

That is the City sounding like Brer Rabbit asking not to be thrown in the briar patch.

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Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.

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noun

Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.

noun

A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

noun

White heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for briar.

noun

Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.

noun

A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

noun

White heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.

noun

A unisex given name from English.

Example sentences

That is the City sounding like Brer Rabbit asking not to be thrown in the briar patch.

For instance, Briar exposes your Bluetooth MAC, and there's a bunch of nasty Bluetooth vulns waiting to be exploited.

Both Session and Briar are decentralized technologies where you would never be able to approach a company to get any information.

Background: Briar is the encrypted messaging app that works over tor, local wifi and bluetooth.

Encrypted messaging like Signal and Briar is so much more accessible thanks to smartphones.

My Session and Briar chats don't give out the phone numbers of other users.

Was starting to think about setting up a neighborhood Signal group, but now thinking that maybe something like Briar might be safer...

Please oh please, don't throw me into the briar patch!

I agree that Briar is better, but unfortunately, it can't run on iPhones.

It's not at fault of the Briar project, but it's a moot point when I can't use it to talk to people I know.

The briar patch of OpenSSL is more in the high level protocol code, and not the asm crypto (the perl obfuscation layer makes it fun, but isn't a major source of bugs).

My desired feature: If Bob is a verified contact with both Alice and Charles, Briar should be able to hand the message from Alice to Bob, and then deliver it to Charles.

Quote examples

You need to adopt the "briar patch" strategy: "Oh please, mister boss man, don't throw me into the briar patch...

There seems to be a bit of "don't throw me in the briar patch" mixed in with a dash of "gaffes" and "blunders".

The telecoms protestations to Title II have very much the ring of "please Brer Fox, don't throw me into the briar patch." What they want most of all is to be totally unregulated and have no competition.

This makes me wonder if they on occasion do a brer rabbit -- "oh please don't throw me in the briar patch" -- thing, and are secretly hoping to get to where they can offer a settlement in a class action context.