Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts and arrogance.
It's Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, "No other word and no other language can do it justice."
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Again ( years ago ) and I'm out with the metal detector at an abandoned property. House was falling down. Spent a good two hours roaming the propery, and skunked. Something usually turns up, but not this time. I'm leaving and glanced at the front porch roof. The globe around the light was...
Hello to all, Jim here. I'm a new member, and I have a question. Some years back, while out hunting pheasant, I pulled a bottle out of the ground on the edge of a field. I hope it's not a collectors piece, since I cannot find it. It just got lost in the shuffle. This is it: Sort of an aqua...