Slang for someone who displays extraordinary courage, audacity, or nerve — a more emphatic spin on 'brass balls,' itself a way of saying someone has the boldness of metal where softer people might flinch.
Slang for someone who displays extraordinary courage, audacity, or nerve — a more emphatic spin on 'brass balls,' itself a way of saying someone has the boldness of metal where softer people might flinch. A brass-balled move is one that requires either tremendous bravery or a spectacular disregard for consequences. It's admiring in tone, though crude in delivery, and typically reserved for acts of genuine daring rather than mere recklessness.
It was a brass-balled decision to walk into the board meeting and tell the CEO the entire strategy was wrong.
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(slang) Shamelessness, cheek, brazenness.
(vulgar, slang) The condition of being ballsy; courage.
(slang, idiomatic, humorous) Courage, audacity.
British slang meaning to brazen something out — to face down a difficult or embarrassing situation through sheer nerve and confidence rather than honesty or apology. The 'brass' element invokes the idea of bold, hard-faced audacity. Used in informal British speech for situations requiring bluffing through trouble.
(slang) courageous, brave.