Sentence examples for brass neck from inspiring English sources

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brass neck

noun

Gall, shamelessness, cheek.

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Amy's brass neck is quite something.

Brass neck doesn't begin to describe it.

You almost want to applaud the brass neck.

But it did not dent his rather admirable brass neck.

They've not got the brass neck for it.

If politicians have the brass neck to offer it, democratic electorates vote for the impossible.

In the era of our post-truth politics, brass neck and sheer gall are precious commodities.

"Who's had the brass neck to tell you that?" he cries a few minutes later.

For all his fiscal dissimulation, Gordon Brown never had the brass neck to go this far.

And had something of a brass neck calling itself after Mao's, er, misguided initiative.

Labour's Peter Dowd, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, says it is "brass neck" to talk about public spending.

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