brass balls
English
Noun
brass balls pl (plural only)
- (slang) Shamelessness, cheek.
- 1986, Tim Kazurinsky; Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Bernie (Jim Belushi):
- You've got a lot of brass balls, you know that. I do all the work, you take all the credit. You know what your problem is? Your face.
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Related terms
- brass-balled
- brass neck
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2023), “brass ball n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang