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high brass

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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It's just that I'm still young enough to take the kind of shoving around these high brass figure we're going to get.

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Matson stood in the cleared area surrounding the ship, a position of privilege he shared with a few city and state officials and the high brass from McChord Field, Fort Lewis, and Bremerton Navy Yard.

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It was the only roofed area on the planet large enough to hold the crowd of high brass that had assembled for the occasion.

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So you're to tell your story to the high brass down in Athens.

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