| 单词 | to have the cheek |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have the cheek (to do something) a. Presumptuous or disrespectful behaviour or attitude; impudence, effrontery, audacity; (also) an instance of this. Frequently in to have the cheek (to do something). Cf. face n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] hardiessec1300 boldness1377 malapertness?a1439 over-boldnessc1450 insolencya1513 protervitya1527 impudency1529 sauce malapert1529 petulancy1537 procacitya1538 audacity1545 sauceliness1552 forehead1564 hardihead1579 hardihood1594 outfacing1598 audaciousness1599 impudentness1599 petulancea1600 impertinency1609 impertinence1612 impudencea1616 procacya1620 affrontedness1640 brow1642 front1653 insolence1668 affrontery1679 assurance1699 effrontery1715 affrontiveness1721 swagger1725 imperence1765 cheek1823 sassiness1834 cheekiness1838 pawk1855 gall1882 chutzpah1886 face1890 mouth1891 crust1900 rind1901 smarting1902 hide1916 brass neck1937 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)] > be impudent enough to to have the face (to do something)?1562 to have the conscience1595 to have the cheek (to do something)1823 to have a nerve1887 1823 ‘B. Truck’ Man-of-war's-man in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 271/2 But the rogue had such an invincible cheek, and so smooth and oily a tongue. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House liv. 517 On account of his having so much cheek. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. II. x. 229 He can't have the cheek to ask for more. 1885 Standard 13 May 2/7 It showed a considerable amount of ‘cheek’ on the part of the hon. Baronet that he should come forward once more with his project. 1922 W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xiii. 59 I almost thought the blighters would have the confounded cheek to shoot me. 1964 Listener 16 Apr. 624/2 ‘Television dramatists’..have the cheek to use television techniques in stage plays. 1987 Waterways World Apr. 38/1 It seeming a bit of a cheek to stop this busy road for four idle holidaymakers. 2006 Independent 28 Feb. 38/4 And how can he have the fathomless cheek to return to public life after being ruined. < as lemmas |
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