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[US] Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle 25 Jan. 4/3: They will be ‘getting down to brass tacks’ (if one will pardon a slang phrase in discussing so serious a question.).
at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
[US] Centralia (WA) Chronicle Advertiser 15 Nov. 4/3: Every chief mobsman has his clown.
at mobsman, n.
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