Re: totally brassic this is broke, flat, busted? lacking money?

i think it is interesting that brass is so often used in UK english for money.. I have heard expensive things defined at costing good brass, and worthless things as not worth a brass farthing.

but in the US, brass is usually nerve, verve or gall! monkeys aside, when some one has brass balls they have courage--foolhearty courage sometimes, or they are nervy-- and some one defined as brassy is loud and pushy--

the only association i have of brass with money, is from a pawn shop-- and that is fading fast, as pawn shops become fewer and fewer, and the few that are left rarely display the three brass balls i learned to associate with pawn shops.
for more on pawn shops.. http://www.familypawn.com/about.htm


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