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

  • (..) what they're meant to be. Oh, I'm sorry! Did I not get the Evite to your bar mitzvah? Oh, my God! You've got real chutzpah saying that! Look, where has being a nice guy gotten you, huh? Standing on the edge of a bridge about to commit suicide? Still wearing Crocs? (..)
    2012 The Dictator