brass neck
nounEtymology
From stick one's neck out.
Definitions
Gall, shamelessness, cheek.
- Theresa May’s former chief of staff has accused the UK’s chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, of having a “brass neck” after he said the UK government had “blinked first” in negotiations.
A person with gall.
- And it will need a strong hand to wield that knife, and it will need a steady nerve besides, because they have necks of brass, these aristocrats, I tell you: brass necks, all of them!
- Mostly, though, open data acts as a deterrent against committing fraud in the first place, since it would take the brassiest of brass necks to post a fake dataset on a public website.
The neighborhood
- neighborbrass-balled
- neighborbrass-necked
- neighborbrass-neck
- neighbor[to have] a neck like a jockey's bollocks
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA