BRASS
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Clues, out of order
"________ the BRASS", progressive rallying cry
Append a /p/ sound to BRASS to get a military term
"BRASS, but ________", you might say about a regrettable situation
Change one letter in BRASS to get a plant
Color of healthy BRASS
Drop the first letter from BRASS and anagram to become unfortunate
Fasteners that sound like "BRASS"
It appears right after BRASS
Opposite of BRASS
When you're BRASS, you're feeling ________
About this Raddle
"Brass tacks" is Cockney rhyming slang for "facts". Of course, you probably already know this, as it arguably has the biggest leap of any Cockney phrase into mainstream English, with "getting down to brass tacks" being a widely used idiom. Now you know where it comes from!