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Old 16th Mar 2021, 09:08
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Gentle_flyer
 
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Got a PM requesting more on chutzpah!

Why show my illiteracy when others excel....

From Wikipedia:Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts', presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to". In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and condemnation. In the same work, Rosten also defines the term as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."

Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal responsibility, which renders others speechless and incredulous ... one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight. The implication is at least some degree of psychopathy in the subject,[citation needed] as well as the awestruck amazement of the observer at the display.

Yep I think that covers it..,.
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