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brass-collar

[ bras-kol-er, brahs- ]

adjective

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

    a brass-collar Democrat.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of brass-collar1

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55
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Example Sentences

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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.

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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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But no man is, or can henceforth be, the brass-collar thrall of any man; you will have to bind him by other, far nobler and cunninger methods.

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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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