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gall

B1 noun
gen /ɡɔl/

gall /ɡoːl/ nghĩa là vết trầy do yên cọ xát

Các nghĩa

  1. vết trầy do yên cọ xát

    Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.

    uncountable

    Prichard, while keeping school, had the unmitigated gall to teach Greek, although he had never studied the subject.

    In July 1938, that was sufficient to call down contempt and hatred on us, and brand us as men of unmitigated gall.

  2. vết trầy, vết xước

    Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

    figuratively · uncountable

    The stage its ancient fury thus let fall, / And comedy diverted without gall.

    […] I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall […]

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