| 单词 | brass-hatted |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrass-hatted brass-hatted adj. wearing a brass hat; esp. with reference (frequently depreciative) to high-ranking officers in the armed forces (cf. brass hat n.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [adjective] > high-ranking high-ranking1850 brass-hatted1858 five-star1942 two-star1951 1858 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 10 Nov. 3/7 The blue-coated, pewter-buttoned, brass-hatted army is upon them in a moment. 1887 Army & Navy Mag. Dec. 191 Quartermaster-generals and similar brass-hatted officials were fussing about. 1903 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 73 There's a crowd of brass-'atted blighters there which will say I've been absent without leaf. 1917 ‘Taffrail’ Off Shore 82 The brass-hatted potentate who regards our quarterly list of breakages with a horny and unsympathetic eye. 1924 B. Willson Redemption v. viii. 391 These brass-hatted popinjays. 2008 Canberra Times (Nexis) 22 Jan. a11 The failure didn't originate in the minds of the brass-hatted generals wandering the long, sterile corridors of the Pentagon. < as lemmas |
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