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Thread: damn cheek!
- 18-Sep-2006, 12:47 #1
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damn cheek! Hello everyone - new here - just wondering if anyone knows the origin of the expression 'brass nerve'?
I used it recently on another Forum, and someone told me it was Yiddish slang. I knew it meant damned cheek, that's why I used it! but wondered where/how it originated.....?
- 18-Sep-2006, 16:06 #2
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Teacher Re: damn cheek! "Brass nerve" is British English. The Yiddish word for that phrase would be "chutzpah."
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