top brass BrE informal
the brass AmE informal

The last place I wanted to be was with the top brass.

The top brass change with the party, every seven years.

All the more reason to be away from the top brass, he thought.

It was all taken up by the top brass you know.

When it was set to get off the ground, well, some top brass got cold feet.

That means I'm going to be meeting with the top brass.

Demand has always been especially high for the top brass.

The top brass ordered everyone to work just a half day.

"I think that's more something that the top brass might say."

After the ceremony the top brass got into his car.

I thought it was military to allow the top brass at home a more direct control.

There were not many survivors of the very top brass, and no one seemed to know just what had happened.

He has no hesitation telling the top brass where to head in.

"I'll talk to the top brass and see what I can do for you.

But some of the top brass believed that war was inevitable.

United's top brass have a role to play in building confidence within their ranks.

The only way you kept the top brass in line, reminded them who was the boss.

Mother told me that the top brass think the captain's showing them up, and they want to put him in his place.

The top brass may be waiting to decide what to do about the Squad.

Even the top brass are in on the game.

The department lost 343 people at the trade center, including many of its top brass and elite specialists.

Yet all too often both the top brass and the officers involved think of such work as mere public relations.

So what were we doing in a big meeting of top brass listening to this presentation?

He was one of the top brass, ruthless and cruel.

That is certainly the expectation of the Pentagon's top brass.

He took a lot more time than the brass had wanted, however.

The brass were only good at looking out for number one.

But the other party he had brought out was the brass girl.

Then you have the brass to come to me with it?

Then it hit the news and the brass took over.

The brass must be in another room, the door closed.

He also thought about the way the brass was running the fight here in Chicago.

The chief of police was on scene with all the brass.

By and large, that task has been left to the brass.

The brass band is only a small part of what he does.

I led the way over and tried the brass door handle.

Now was the time for me to go and study the brass plate.

The brass at city hall already knew what he was doing, most of it.

He held another high level meeting with the brass that had spent much of the day moving back to his floor.

I want to look at what the brass handed us.

"You sure this is the straight story from the brass?"

The brass had never given her an international assignment before.

In middle school she was a member of the brass band.

Gone back to wherever they came from, the brass told him.

But first thing we knew, all the brass began to get excited.

Today, he said, only 1 in 15 or 20 will get the brass ring.

They go back to a time well before that of the brass band.

The brass has decided they need to look over every ship this far out.

He would have been well within his rights to let the brass do the dirty work.

It seemed to take a long time for his hand to find the brass handle.