top brass

English

Noun

top brass (usually uncountable, plural top brasses)

  1. (idiomatic, colloquial) A group of people who are the leaders or heads of an organization.
    • 1872, New Zealand Parliament, House of Representatives, “Parliamentary debates”, in 57, volume 1-6, page 649:
      The top brass of the army are up to various types of mischief and they do not want the public or even Members of Parliament to know about them.

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