| 单词 | brass hat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrass hat brass hat n. [so called from the gilt insignia on an officer's cap] colloquial (originally Military slang) a high-ranking officer in the armed forces, originally in the British army; cf. tin hat n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > high-ranking officer marshal general1594 brass hat1887 tin hat1916 1887 Belfast News-let. 16 Mar. 7/4 Three officers..are to be tried by general court-martial for practical joking to a most unwarrantable extent with one of the brass hats of Dublin—we mean a staff officer. 1904 Def. Duffer's Drift 16 Whether some ‘brass hat’ might not come round and inspect us next day. 1927 Bulletin 22 Sept. 5/2 A Rolls-Royce car containing two military ‘brass-hats’. 1940 War Illustr. 5 Jan. 546/1 No one today hears sarcastic reference to ‘brass hats’, the traditional term for the staff officers of the High Command. 1999 Taxi Talk Oct. (Northern ed.) 3/2 During the First World War countless thousands of troops were sacrificed before the brass hats realised that wholesale slaughter was a waste of resources. < as lemmas |
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