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

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.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis

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 Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

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?

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

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!

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas