Leo Rosten Chutzpah Yiddish Gall brazen nerve justice lady pretzels blinking eye arrogance Archives - Good News! https://goodnewsplanet.com/tag/leo-rosten-chutzpah-yiddish-gall-brazen-nerve-justice-lady-pretzels-blinking-eye-arrogance/ Life Affirming Good News Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-Earth-1200-×-1200-px-32x32.png Leo Rosten Chutzpah Yiddish Gall brazen nerve justice lady pretzels blinking eye arrogance Archives - Good News! https://goodnewsplanet.com/tag/leo-rosten-chutzpah-yiddish-gall-brazen-nerve-justice-lady-pretzels-blinking-eye-arrogance/ 32 32 Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall https://goodnewsplanet.com/chutzpah-is-a-yiddish-word-meaning-gall/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=3093 Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; it’s Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, no other word, and no other language, can do it justice. This example is better than a thousand words… A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. Every …

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]]> Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; it’s Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, no other word, and no other language, can do it justice. This example is better than a thousand words…

A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time and as he passed the pretzel stand he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel.

And this went on for more then 3 years. The two of them never spoke. One day as the young man passed the old lady’s stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to him. Without blinking an eye she said:

“They’re 35 cents now.”

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