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- adjective idiomatic, UK, Ireland
Nervy ;cheeky ;shameless - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
brass-neck .
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Examples
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Parliamentary Blogger Recess Monkey scooped the field with an announcement shortly after midnight that brass-necked iron lady Maggie Thatcher had shuffled off to the great scrapyard in the sky.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Parliamentary Blogger Recess Monkey scooped the field with an announcement shortly after midnight that brass-necked iron lady Maggie Thatcher had shuffled off to the great scrapyard in the sky.
Archive 2007-03-04 2007
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Which was more than fine with me, I had refused to talk to the NOTW ever since they sent a brass-necked request to me to please provide a family with attractive kids, where a parent had died on 7/7, for a feel-good Victims Meet Father Christmas courtesy of the News of The World piece.
Scary asbestos story Rachel 2007
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Cameron's proposals are "simply a brass-necked rebranding of programs already put in place."
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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She was Arianna Stassinopolous then - a noisy, wealthy (daughter of a rich Greek family) and brass-necked hussy who became president of the Union (not to be confused with the - socialist - students 'union).
Irish Blogs 2009
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Six in 10 have walked into a friend's house and found that it smelt - but only a brass-necked 18 per cent would mention it.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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The English language and Indian civility allow his brass-necked inquisitiveness full rein.
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Six in 10 have walked into a friend's house and found that it smelt - but only a brass-necked 18 per cent would mention it.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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"I was very brass-necked and determined to be a singer."
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"I was very brass-necked and determined to be a singer."
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