Brass

A few measures later, the brass comes in strong!

The brass are not going to like this.

The brass is not going to like this.

I don't want to keep the brass waiting, Chief.

You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!

At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.

[...] he continued in the same insulting strain. "If you were not quite brass, you would know it is not proper to be making promises you dare not tell of."

It was a show of very large and very brass cojones, [...]

Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.

After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.

Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, …

Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.

I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]

Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.

There are soldiers, policemen, priests and friars, as well as a motley mass of women, children, babies and dogs, and upon special occasions a very brass band.

The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very brass band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes.

As Honest Plush Brannon then, Mr. Beery is one of San Francisco's fancier con men and hence more brass than plush

Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.