high brass

British

noun

brass containing 65 per cent copper and 35 per cent zinc, used for most applications

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The hotels were jammed with high brass, and the big silvery transports sweeping down on McCarran Field kept adding to the flood.

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Since the beginning of the year, the Russian press has reported these deaths among the high brass: Jan. 3.

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General James Gavin and other high brass, he was turned down cold.

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U.S. high brass fanned out over Western Europe.

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Chamberlain could see, even at this distance: the high brass.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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