"rub one's face with a brass candlestick" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1853, Walter William Broom, Many Botanical Secrets, page 4",
          "text": "Every step you take you proclaim yourself the father of him who rubbed his face with a brass candlestick",
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        {
          "ref": "1873, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 11, page 577",
          "text": "\"Why, Walsher,\" said Mr. Stubber, \"how many times a day do you rub your face with a brass candlestick? Why, I lent you a pony when you were stumped, and you carried off a cool hundred.\"",
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          "ref": "1894, Werner's Magazine, volume 16, page 71",
          "text": "After dinner, I metaphorically rubbed my face with a brass candlestick and became bold enough to ask him to let me read something for him, for the sake of his suggestions and criticism.",
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        "To (prepare to) be very brazen or impudent."
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        "(colloquial, archaic) To (prepare to) be very brazen or impudent."
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