chutzpah
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With that in mind and the word chutzpah, which is a Yiddish expression for arrogance, we offer a couple of tidbits on our distinguished elected officials that labor down there in Washington D.C. The first one is that reptilian from C.lifornia C.ngressman Gary C.ndit, who late Friday raced into the courthouse to file his papers for re-election, just ahead of deadline.
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- noun Utter nerve; effrontery: "has the chutzpah to claim a lock on God and morality” (New York Times).
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With that in mind and the word chutzpah, which is a Yiddish expression for arrogance, we offer a couple of tidbits on our distinguished elected officials that labor down there in Washington D.C. The first one is that reptilian from C.lifornia C.ngressman Gary C.ndit, who late Friday raced into the courthouse to file his papers for re-election, just ahead of deadline.
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The classic example of chutzpah, the Yiddish word for brazen gall, is that of a man who, after being convicted for killing both his parents, throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he's an orphan.
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The owners of Ever Gotesco Grand Central Mall-led by controversial businessman Jose Go-has shown remarkable chutzpah, the Hebrew word for "audacity," in defying Echiverri and the rest of the city government, as well as the judiciary and the police.
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I've always been fond of the Yiddish word chutzpah, classically defined as that quality displayed by a man who murders both of his parents and then pleads for mercy on the ground that he's an orphan.
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- Yiddish khutspe, from Mishnaic Hebrew ḥuṣpâ, from ḥāṣap, to be insolent; see ḥṣp in Semitic roots.
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