brass balls
(slang) Shamelessness, cheek, brazenness.
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(slang) Shamelessness, cheek, brazenness.
“As Maque points out downthread, Nolan is a guy who has the brass balls to try to turn a third Batman movie into A Tale of Two Cities, but also totally spiked the execution by throwing in a bunch of other shit”
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.
“As Maque points out downthread, Nolan is a guy who has the brass balls to try to turn a third Batman movie into A Tale of Two Cities, but also totally spiked the execution by throwing in a bunch of other shit”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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