chutzpah

Definition

  • noun: personal confidence or courage that allows someone to do or say things that may seem shocking to others
  • noun: supreme self-confidence
  • synonyms: nerve

Examples

  • It took a lot of 'chutzpah' [='nerve'] to stand up to him the way she did.

Movie quotes

  • (..) ... and you give me my phone call? To play what was going on ... ... scared, but kind of ... ... some of the chutzpah that Thomas Anderson has: You know, "Fuck you." I keep getting into this attitude when I do it. I turn into this guy. (..)
    2001 The Matrix Revisited