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gall
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gall as in:  had the gall to

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  • The time she was removed from succession to the throne came back to Redd with the full force of its heart-stopping gall… The ever wise Queen Theodora announced that she could not allow such an unruly daughter to have queenly power.  (source)
    gall = impertinence or impudence (rudeness and boldness)
  • all the greed and all the gall Is boiled away for once and all.  (source)
    gall = boldness and rudeness to say or do things that are not acceptable to others
  • Fache was in utter incomprehension of this woman's gall.†  (source)
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  • They're supposed to be you blithering idiot!" shouted McGona-gall.†  (source)
    gall = boldness and rudeness to say or do things that are not acceptable to others
  • At the end, our leaders, Sarah Hill and Troy and Maila Gall, lead us in a short Bible study, usually about what Jesus said or did.†  (source)
  • "After everything that I've done for you," continued Adri, "everything we've sacrificed, you have the gall to steal from me."†  (source)
  • A few people laugh nervously, but most turn their heads to see if Skeeter has had the gall to show up.†  (source)
  • The gall of them, fighting back.†  (source)
  • If anyone had the gall to ask why the door had been locked, Jackson would respond that it hadn't been locked; the students had simply been unable to open it.†  (source)
  • A lavatory sponge plunged into vinegar and gall and thrust into His poor mouth, a mouth that moves rarely except to pray, to pray even for you, boys, even for you who nailed Him to that cross.†  (source)
  • Will laughed, which I thought took a great deal of gall.†  (source)
  • Near its crown it bulged with the distinctive onion-shaped dome of its accumulator gall.†  (source)
  • You have some gall calling me lazy for someone who lies in bed all day.†  (source)
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rare meaning

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  • Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, your murdering ministers,  (source)
    gall = bile
  • Gall of goat, and slips of yew  (source)
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