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单词 brass neck
释义
brass neck
noun[SorU]
UKinformaldisapproving
uk
/ˌbrɑːs ˈnek/us
/ˌbræs ˈnek/
atypeofbehaviourwhere someone isextremelyconfidentabouttheirownactionsbut does notunderstandthattheirbehaviourisunacceptabletoothers:
厚脸皮
She's gotabrassnecktoaskfor adayoff when we're sobusy.我们这么忙，她还腆着脸要求说要休假一天。
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(Definition ofbrass neckfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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The sheerbrassneckof people like him never ceases to surprise me.
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Talk aboutbrassneck, as they say in my part of the world.
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Yet he has the cheek and thebrassneckto take the post of chairman and try to project an image.
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I refer to the spread of benefit-of-hindsight disease, whose symptoms arebrassneckand severe memory loss.
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How can she have thebrassneckto talk of a vast international co-operative effort?
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That is an empty farce,brassneckof the most perverse sort.
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They have thebrassneckto sit here having resigned from their parties.
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They have thebrassneckor, as was said last night, the brass face to try to carry that off.
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If nothing else, he deserves full marks for sheerbrassneck.
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Perhaps it is because at his age that he has abrassneck.
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That shows thebrassneckthat these people have.
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I particularly want to know whether they will have thebrassneckto ask electricity consumers to purchase shares in the new privatised organisations.
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I do not understand how they have thebrassneckto suggest that their record of youth training measures up to what we have now.
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If there were educational prizes for effrontery and sheerbrassneck, they would certainly be at the front of the queue.
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Instead, it has thebrassneckto claim that our reforms will bring about precisely what they will remedy.
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