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definition of chutzpah!
Posted: Jan 19, 2011
Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery,
> sheer guts plus arrogance; it's Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes,
> "no other word and no other language", can do it justice. This
> example is better than 1,000 words. Read the story
> and then you will understand.
>> THE ESSENCE OF CHUTZPAH...
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>> A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents
>> each. Every day a young man would
>> leave his office building at lunch time, and as he passed the
>> pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a
>> pretzel.
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>> This went on for more than 3 years. The two of them never spoke.
>> One day, as the young man passed the old lady's stand and left his
>> quarter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to him. Without blinking
>> an eye she said:
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>> "They're 35 cents now."
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