brass ring

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   a rich opportunity or a prize

   “he missed the brass ring at the Miami convention”

   Broaderopportunity

Questions about brass ring

What does brass ring mean?

brass ring means "a rich opportunity or a prize".

Is brass ring a common word?

brass ring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.