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brain trust noun a group of expert advisors US, 1910 Although found at least as early as 1910, not popularised until 1933 in association with US President Franklin Roosevelt’s advisors.- Oakland’s new “brain trust” includes Manager Chuck Dressen, left, and Long George Kelly, former major league baseball luminaries. — San Francisco News, 19 January 1949
- But the strategy of the Democratic brain-trust miscarried. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 200, 1951
- It is not altogether strange that President Kenney’s brain trust should find itself under heavy fire from the Republican side of the fence. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 1, 1 July 1962
- Well, he ain’t popl’lar neither. He ain’t no brain trust. He ain’t even good-lookin’. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 409, 1993
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