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vaskipuhallinryhmä puhekieltä A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
puhekieltä A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound.
Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
puhekieltä The colour of brass.

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The brass are not going to like this.

The brass is not going to like this.

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

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.