[Ads-l] "to come right down to the brass" 1858

[Stephen Goranson]

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Another early, US, political "down to the brass":
03-05-1861 Plain Dealer , Cleveland OH p. 3, col. 1 [Am. Hist. Newsp.] "Jo Bows on the Presidents [and the qualities of their parents]":
"....If Jo Bows came down to the brass he would say, they, were more so." 

SG



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Subject: [ADS-L] "to come right down to the brass" 1858

"Mr H H GRAY said, we have talked all around the question, and he thought it was time to come right down to the brass."

Transcript [accurate?] of a session on Wed. am, Jan. 27, 1858.

Headline: [No Headline]; Article Type: Legislative Acts/Legal Proceedings
Paper: Weekly Wisconsin Patriot, published as The Weekly Wisconsin Patriot; Date: 01-30-1858; Volume: 4; Issue: 35; Page: [2] col. 4  Location: Madison, Wisconsin


Stephen Goranson

http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/


PS The earliest reported use of "down to brass tacks" is Jan. 1863.

PPS [Other early uses are legislative, too.]

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