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top brass

the highest leader(s); the boss(es). (Originally military.) The top brass turned thumbs down on the proposal. You'll have to check it out with the top brass. She'll be home around five.

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Alas, even personal trips by the Timberwolves'' top brass couldn''t persuade Ricky to join the team. Ricky Rubio ? when Will He Play in the NBA? by Christopher Hall / Sports and fitness community uk CAPTION(S): TOP BRASS David Hamilton, 18, trombone player with Durham County Youth Big Band, escapologist David Straitjacket, Michael Mason, 15, trumpet player with Durham County Youth Big Band in Durham Market Place for the launch of BRASS. FESTIVAL PROVES PURE ESCAPISM FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS by The Journal (Newcastle, England) But Newcastle's manager-in-waiting Alan Shearer has advised United's top brass to demand up to pounds 15m for Bassong, who cost the Magpies just one-tenth that much when he arrived from Metz last summer. SPURS LEAD SEB CHASE by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)			too big for britches too close for comfort too close to call too for words too funny for words too good to be true too hot to handle too little, too late too many chiefs Too many chiefs and not enough Indians Too many cooks Too many cooks spoil the stew too much Too much information! too much of a good thing too rich for blood took the words right out of my mouth tool tool around tool up tools of the trade toot tooth tootin top top brass top notch top of the heap top of the line top off top story top to toe top up top with top-notch topple topple down topple off topple over topsy topsy-turvy torch tore torment into doing torn torn between torture into toss toss a salad toss and turn toss around			Top 40 Top 40 top a bid Top Alcohol Dragster Top Alcohol Funny Car Top American Research Universities Top Amplifier Research Groups in a European Team Top and Bottom Top and bottom fermenting yeast Top and bottom fermenting yeast Top and bottom fermenting yeast Top and bottom in sex and BDSM top and bottom process Top and but Top Antireflective Top Antireflective Coating Top Assembly Drawing Top Attack Anti-Tank Mine top banana top banana top banana Top Banana (disambiguation) Top Bar Hive top beam top beam Top Bet Placement Services top billing top boot top boots Top Bottom Left Right top brass top cager top car clearance Top Cat Top Cat Top China Travel Top City Krew Top Class Training Top coat Top coat Top Coder Top Color Conversion Layer Top Conservatives on Facebook Top Conservatives on Twitter Top Contact Vidéo Top Corner Hockey League top cut Top dead center Top dead center Top Dead Center Compression Top Dead Center Offset Top dead centre Top dead centre top dead-centre top dog top dogs top dollar Top domain Top Domain Value Report

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