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Example sentences for: chutzpa
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“Chutzpa is that quality enshrined in a man, who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
A slew of words like mavin and chutzpa , phrases like the bottom line and the whole megillah , idioms like eat one's heart out and need it like a hole in the head , formative elements like shm-(fancy/shmancy, value/shmalue) and -nik (spynik, noshnik) have become common coin in colloquial English, especially in the United States.
chutzpa `nerve; unmitigated gall;' a quality we admire within ourselves, but never in others.
Consequently, learners of English or of any Latin script language tend to skip a few vowels here and there in a cavalier manner, or, if you prefer, with Israeli chutzpa, as if they were saying, BG DL, they're only stpd vwls, we'll pt a few in fr th stpd tchr who cn't rd English without them.