brass neck
See also: brass-neck
English
Etymology
From stick one's neck out (1960s)[1]
Noun
brass neck (plural brass necks)
- (idiomatic, Britain, Ireland) Gall, shamelessness, cheek.
- 2014 March 18, John Hyde, “Help for Heroes? Not from this government”, in The Law Society Gazette, archived from the original on 20 March 2014:
- This year's commemorations of the start of World War One are a stark reminder of the sacrifices politicians make with other people's lives – except nowadays they'll do so wearing a Help for Heroes t-shirt (almost entirely covering their brass necks). When it comes to the hypocritical lauding of the armed forces while simultaneously shafting them, no one does it better than this government.
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- (idiomatic, Britain, Ireland) A person with gall.
Related terms
- brass-necked
- brass-neck (verb)
- [to have] a neck like a jockey's bollocks (Irish slang)
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