brass-collar

American  

[bras-kol-er, brahs-] / ˈbræsˈkɒl ər, ˈbrɑs- /

adjective

Informal.

1. unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket.

   a brass-collar Democrat.

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Etymology

Origin of brass-collar

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55

Example Sentences

Gurth had the inexpressible satisfaction of feeling himself related indissolubly, though in a rude brass-collar way, to his fellow-mortals in this Earth.

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And again we are to bethink us that men cannot now be bound to men by brass-collars,—not at all: that this brass-collar method, in all figures of it, has vanished out of Europe forevermore!

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Once for all, he is to be loose of the brass-collar, to have a scope as wide as his faculties now are:—will he not be all the usefuler to you in that new state?

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I'm left out in the cold; I can't begin to sabe what the senator and these railroad brass-collar men are driving at.

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Gurth had the inexpressible satisfaction of feeling himself related indissolubly, though in a rude brass-collar way, to his fellow- mortals in this Earth.

From Project Gutenberg