What's the difference between chutzpah and gall?

Chutzpah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Russell, with typical chutzpah, claimed it was the best thing he ever made.
  • (2) It takes some chutzpah and, let's face it, a lack of perspective for a celebrity to ask a war crimes tribunal for these sorts of restrictions, but perhaps we should expect no more from a woman who said that she had never heard of Liberia when she met Charles Taylor at a charity dinner given by Nelson Mandela in 1997.
  • (3) So the struggle to return to a kind of normal is evident – but so are the pride and chutzpah; the drive and ego that presumably help to keep a difficult show on the road.
  • (4) She was turned down when she applied to study art at Central Saint Martins, but when she told them the decision would ruin her life and she'd end up a "crackhead prostitute", they let her in for sheer chutzpah.
  • (5) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
  • (6) Whatever your view of Rich's approach to business, you had to admire his chutzpah.
  • (7) One writes off, with breathtaking chutzpah, a then-prominent school of Scottish painters as "a tiny, unimportant part of the international art world".
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Panama Papers explained An equivalent blast of Cameronian chutzpah today might work wonders again – assuming, of course, that no awkward secrets are still lurking behind the evolving denials.
  • (9) So to see someone with that chutzpah and bullet-proof, Teflon, confidence close up is fascinating.
  • (10) It takes a great deal of chutzpah to run for president of the United States.
  • (11) In 1984, with the chutzpah of youth, he launched himself in business.
  • (12) In the event, she didn't need to prove her chutzpah.
  • (13) The chutzpah of these attempts to build support for an increasingly unpopular fracking industry is astonishing.
  • (14) This involved a massive dose of chutzpah but it is clearly smart politics if they can pull it off.
  • (15) Now, it's not like the political class had an extraordinary annual general meeting and appointed Clegg as its new anti-Farage attack dog: with his customary chutzpah, he simply appointed himself to the role.
  • (16) It's bold talk, but so far, Lawrence's choice of roles has justified her chutzpah; her next project, Jodie Foster's The Beaver, is a "weird as hell film" (Lawrence's words) with Mel Gibson as a depressed man who communicates through his beaver   hand-puppet.
  • (17) But with no little chutzpah, Qureshi even finds a way of folding that turquoise-coloured eyesore into a story of civic wonderment.
  • (18) By the end one could only admire West Brom’s chutzpah, a quality United appear to have temporarily mislaid.
  • (19) The word "chutzpah" is barely adequate to describe a lecture from the head of a school that is highly selective both academically and financially – it has one of the country's most distinguished academic records, and charges about £14,000 a year – accusing the state sector of excessive regard for commercialism.
  • (20) His blend of chutzpah and dynamism seduced many voters who felt he articulated their own exasperation with an ageing, sclerotic political class.

Gall


Definition:

  • (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
  • (n.) The gall bladder.
  • (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
  • (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance.
  • (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.
  • (v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
  • (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.
  • (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
  • (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
  • (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer.
  • (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
  • (2) The degree of the filling up and the dilation of the gall bladder, its functional state as well as the passibility of d. cysticus are evaluated by ultrasound examination and computer determination of the surface and dimensions of the gall bladder.
  • (3) One patient presented a rupture of the gall-bladder with formation of a bilioma in the adjacent liver tissue.
  • (4) When tissue metabolism was irreversibly inhibited by exposure to formaldehyde, hydrogen ion concentration and pCO2 were significantly decreased in the mucosal side of the chamber compared with the viable gall bladder.
  • (5) In 15 subjects the gall bladder emptied in relation to eating according to a double exponential function.
  • (6) On 3 April he announced on his website that he had inoperable gall bladder cancer, giving him, at most, a year to live.
  • (7) This is a report of the short- and long-term complications in a premature infant with tracheoesophageal fistula, including those related to central venous alimentation, seizures, chylothorax, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dental erosions, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary problems, and gall stones.
  • (8) Adenomyomas of the gall bladder are rare benign neoplasms.
  • (9) The lack of symptomatic gall stones in cross sectional surveys is probably due to their rapid diagnosis and treatment.
  • (10) Histological examination suggested that the gall sludge in the pancreatic cyst was caused by the reflux of bile into the pancreatic duct through the papilla of Vater.
  • (11) The results were analysed according the morphological criteria (demonstration of the bile duct, intra-hepatic ducts, gall bladder and renal tract) and functional criteria (T max, half-time biliary excretion values, development of activity in the bile duct, in the gall bladder and in the gut).
  • (12) The number of stones per gall-bladder averaged 6.3 (1-20), size of stones 1.7 cm (0.5-2.8 cm), and duration of treatment 11.9 h (5-24 h).
  • (13) The types of metastasis expansion in the bones were determined radiologically: the most frequent--osteolytic, less frequent--mixed, and the osteoplastic type (prostate cancer, gall-bladder cancer, and pancreas cancer).
  • (14) Fractional turnover rate on the two regimens correlated with gall bladder emptying (n = 16, r = 0.61, p less than 0.01), but not with small intestinal transit time (r = 0.07, NS).
  • (15) Few to many cryptosporidia were present in the gall bladders and bile ducts of infected birds.
  • (16) Pulse rate and blood pressure were not affected by the gall bladder distension.
  • (17) Pancreatic duct abnormalities were more severe and occurred more frequently in patients with gall stones who had stones in the biliary tree than in patients with a normal biliary tree (postcholecystectomy patients, 55% v 25%) but the difference between the two groups just failed to be significant (chi 2 = 3.34).
  • (18) We conclude that a number of non-specific chronic inflammatory histological abnormalities were present in primary sclerosing cholangitis gall bladders.
  • (19) On histological examination, there were signs of acute cardiac failure; edema of the lungs, liver and gall bladder, partial myofibrillar degeneration and cytoplasmic vacuoles in the media of a small coronary artery.
  • (20) These investigations reveal that the great majority of cases of gall-stones are undiagnosed.