[Lexicog] Figurative expressions for "courage" in different language

[Peter Kirk]

On 19/02/2005 01:43, Fritz Goerling wrote:

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>Hebrew "chutzpah" is an interesting word, too. Where does it
>come from?
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Good question. Could it in fact be a from a variant of the biblical
Hebrew root qof-tsade-pe "anger"?  The initial "ch" is more likely to
represent het, but there is no bibical root het-tsade-pe.

Or could it be from German via Yiddish?

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