| 词汇 | brass-neck |
| 释义 | brass neck noun[ S or U ] UKinformaldisapprovinguk /ˌbrɑːs ˈnek/ us /ˌbræs ˈnek/ a type of behaviour where someone is extremely confident about their own actions but does not understand that their behaviour is unacceptable to others: 厚脸皮 She's got a brass neck to ask for a day off when we're so busy.我们这么忙，她还腆着脸要求说要休假一天。 Saddening, shocking and upsetting affecting agonizingly arrogance baleful be cold comfortidiom distressful distressfully distressing distressingly dolorous hurtful hurtfully impiously impiousness lacerating teary touching touchingly tragically traumatic Examples of brass neckbrass neck The sheer brassneck of people like him never ceases to surprise me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Talk about brassneck, as they say in my part of the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet he has the cheek and the brassneck to take the post of chairman and try to project an image. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I refer to the spread of benefit-of-hindsight disease, whose symptoms are brassneck and severe memory loss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can she have the brassneck to talk of a vast international co-operative effort? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is an empty farce, brassneck of the most perverse sort. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have the brassneck to sit here having resigned from their parties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have the brassneck or, as was said last night, the brass face to try to carry that off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If nothing else, he deserves full marks for sheer brassneck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps it is because at his age that he has a brassneck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That shows the brassneck that these people have. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I particularly want to know whether they will have the brassneck to ask electricity consumers to purchase shares in the new privatised organisations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not understand how they have the brassneck to suggest that their record of youth training measures up to what we have now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If there were educational prizes for effrontery and sheer brassneck, they would certainly be at the front of the queue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, it has the brassneck to claim that our reforms will bring about precisely what they will remedy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of brass neck These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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