brown stuff

Some of those emails paint Dr. Fauci as being preoccupied with his public image; one April 2021 message from an aide said that while Dr. Fauci “prides himself on being like teflon,” he appeared to be “getting worried about the brown stuff hitting the fan” over questions about research funded by his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

If a university in the southern part of the state has its way, the sticky sweet brown stuff you put on your pancakes might one day come from New Jersey.

And then I started thinking that looks rather boring, brown stuff on brown stuff.

The drinking was a bit; Martin liked a cocktail now and then but the brown stuff he swilled onstage was Martinelli’s.

I do step into the knee-high grass—if you can even call the crunchy brown stuff grass—and head around the right side of the house.