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brass

n. high-ranking military or civilian officers. (see also top brass.) We’ll see what the brass has to say first.

See:

• as bold as brass
• be not worth a brass farthing
• big brass
• bold as brass
• brass
• brass balls
• brass ceiling
• brass farthing
• brass hat
• brass monkey
• brass monkey weather
• brass monkeys
• brass neck
• brass off
• brass ring
• brass someone off
• brass tacks
• brassed
• brassed off
• cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• double in brass
• down to brass tacks
• get down to brass tacks
• have the brass
• not worth a brass farthing
• the brass ring
• the top brass
• top brass
• Where there's muck, there's brass