Caradura in english
Nerve
pronunciation: nɜrv part of speech: noun
pronunciation: nɜrv part of speech: noun
In gestures
caradura = chutzpah ; impudence ; effrontery ; blatancy ; shameless ; shamelessness ; cad ; brazenness ; insolence ; cheeky ; bare-faced cheek ; sass ; Cheeky monkey!.
Example: Typical examples are 'Who is it that has made most gramophone records?' 'What is the diameter of a human hair?' Which are the commonest surnames?' 'What was it that Jane Austen said about apple pie?' 'What does 'chutzpah' mean?'.Example: Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue.Example: This article discusses the use of the term 'chutzpah' by courts suffering various effronteries at the hands of attorneys and even witnesses who appear before them in both criminal and civil matters.Example: There is no argument about this, because the blatancy and shamelessness of it are undeniable.Example: Another librarian described herself as 'a shameless, self-promoter'.Example: There is no argument about this, because the blatancy and shamelessness of it are undeniable.Example: Not only that, but this cad has also convinced them she is losing her faculties.Example: However, his brazenness was short-lived as a canon shell shattered his right leg, forcing the garrison to surrender.Example: But a commander from another land will put an end to his insolence and cause him to retreat in shame.Example: The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.Example: Chris deserves a prize for bare-faced cheek.Example: She sat on the front row and wrecked me with her long dark hair, tan legs that went on forever, and her sass.Example: 'Cheeky moneky!' he sniggered, smacking her around the head with a magazine.more:
» ¡qué caradura! = what a nerve! ; what a cheek! .
Example: And the last time I saw him he had the nerve to ask if I would marry him, what a nerve!. Example: What a cheek to take credit for something she hasn't written!.» tener caradura = have + some nerve ; have + a nerve .
Example: I was thinking out loud to myself, this man has some nerve trying to cheat on someone, with his gay looking ass, especially my sister. Example: Well, Henry certainly has a nerve if he says that Anne is not fit for him because she looks like a horse.» tener mucha caradura = have + a nerve ; have + a lot of nerve .
Example: Well, Henry certainly has a nerve if he says that Anne is not fit for him because she looks like a horse. Example: He has a lot of nerve complaining about Arizona's immigration law - when all the state wants to do is protect itself against a flood of illegal immigrants from his country.