brass
要点真ちゅう
意味
- 真ちゅう(銅と亜鉛の合金)
- 《おもに複数形》真ちゅう製器具
- 《しばしば複数形で》金管楽器;《the brass[es]》(オーケストラなどの)金管楽器部
- 《話》(…する)ずうずうしさ,厚かましさ《+todo》
- 《集合的に》《米俗》高級将校,高官
- 真ちゅう製の
例文
Let's get down to brass tacks and talk business.
本題に入って仕事の話をしよう。
Let's get down to brass tacks and make a decision.
要点を絞って、決定を下しましょう。
I belong to the brass band, and so does my brother.
私はブラスバンドに入っています。弟もそうです。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”) and برنج (branj, “brass”) In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.