Citations:bow-legged wi' brass


 * 1977, New Scientist, page 490
 * ... benevolent patriarchs of the Bradford Road with some of their verbal thunderclaps. They often called themselves self-made which, you might think,  relieved God of much responsibility. Charlie Robinson &quot;who were bow-legged wi&#39;  brass&quot;, had ...
 * 2008, Gervase Phinn, The Heart of the Dales, Penguin UK (ISBN 9780141027678)
 * The pub had realised a surprisingly large sum of money; as Harry Cotton observed lugubriously, &#39;Ma Clarke were fair bow-legged wi&#39; brass&#39;, and it was no  surprise when she had booked herself onto a luxury P&amp;O cruise to the Caribbean  on ...
 * 1992, David Yeadon, The Back of Beyond: Travels to the Wild Places of the Earth, HarperCollins (ISBN 9780060922740)
 * One farmer described a hobolike character on the other side of the pens as &quot;bow- legged wi&#39; brass,&quot; and they all nodded, impressed by wealth worn modestly. Clouds scudded across the Wensleydale fells, and shafts of sun moved over ...