Tag: chutzpah

BALLS, NERVE, AND חוצפה

"You're one tough broad," my friend told me. I recognized this as a compliment. Maybe you have to come from New York or New Jersey to "get it," but I got it. "Tough" includes brave, determined, and hard to kill. A survivor with חוצפה  (chutzpah). I've heard "moxie" used in old British and American movies, … Continue reading BALLS, NERVE, AND חוצפה

BALLS, NERVE, AND חוצפה

"You're one tough broad," my friend told me. I recognized this as a compliment. Maybe you have to come from New York or New Jersey to "get it," but I got it. "Tough" includes brave, determined, and hard to kill. A survivor with חוצפה  (chutzpah). I've heard "moxie" used in old British and American movies, … Continue reading BALLS, NERVE, AND חוצפה

BALLS, NERVE, AND חוצפה

"You're one tough broad," my friend told me. I recognized this as a compliment. Maybe you have to come from New York or New Jersey to "get it," but I got it. "Tough" includes brave, determined, and hard to kill. A survivor with חוצפה  (chutzpah). I've heard "moxie" used in old British and American movies, … Continue reading BALLS, NERVE, AND חוצפה

BALLS, NERVE, AND חוצפה – Marilyn Armstrong

"You're one tough broad," my friend told me. I recognized this as a compliment. Maybe you have to come from New York or New Jersey to "get it," but I got it. "Tough" includes brave, determined, and hard to kill. A survivor with חוצפה  (chutzpah). I've heard "moxie" used in old British and American movies, … Continue reading BALLS, NERVE, AND חוצפה – Marilyn Armstrong

MOXIE – IT’S REALLY חוצפה OR CHUTZPAH

Moxie is one of those words I haven't heard in actual use in my lifetime. I've heard it in old British movies and some old American ones, mostly from the 1930s or 1940s, but it's not what people say nowadays. In New York, if they don't call it chutzpah, they would call it "nerve" or … Continue reading MOXIE – IT’S REALLY חוצפה OR CHUTZPAH