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смелость nstresses
gen. courage; boldness; audaciousness; audacity; bravery; pluck; enterprise; hardihood; hardiness; stout heart; bield; hutzpa; moxie; sporting blood; stout-heartedness; stoutness; intrepidity; stuffing; confidence; gumption; stout heartedness; gallantry; valour; gutsiness (Dmitrie); fearlessness; heroism; daring; courageousness; forwardness; freedom; manliness; overconfidence; pertness; pluckiness; plumpness; rashness; recklessness; spirits; sturdiness; temerity; undertaking; venturesomeness; venturousness
Gruzovik adventurousness; stoutheartedness
amer., inf. sand
amer., slang hutzpah
austral., slang push; balls
chem., math. resolution
fig. spine (SirReal); brow; forehead
idiom. red blood (Mirinare); high blood (Bobrovska)
inf. stones (по аналогии c balls Ремедиос_П)
Makarov. aggressiveness
obs. hardiment; adventuresomeness; assuarance; daringness; hardihead
poetic resolve
slang ballsiness; get up and go; gits; grit; guts; heart; hutza; nerve; pizzazz; rind; starch; stomach; ticker; chutzbah (Anglophile); bottle (особенно в выражении lose one's bottle КГА); good size set of plums (Berezitsky); cahones (a misspelt Spanish word "cojones" in the meaning of "to have the balls to do something": "You have to do it all yourself really," he admitted of where the call on what horse to purchase ultimately lands. "You have to have big cahones. otbsports.com Traducierto.com)
span.-am., fig. cojones (ср. англ. have balls: Rutgers is looking at an Edsall-esque reunion, and have no cojones to step up to his personality cult. • I as a player can just assume that the des don't know how to repair it and they have no cojones to admit it. 4uzhoj)
vulg. ass; fat nuts (см. balls); jackass; spunk; balls
yiddish., fig. chutzpa; chutzpah (I love that a post-menopausal woman has the chutzpah to call 'em as she sees 'em. Sure, the Obama campaign and political commentators talk about John McCain's misrepresentations, gaffes, moments where he "misspeaks." But when was the last time you actually heard someone say a candidate was a liar when he or she deserved it because they really were lying?)
pl смелость n
vulg. balls of steel
смелость: 206 phrases in 19 subjects
Bookish / literary1
Business1
Construction1
Football1
General111
Idiomatic7
Informal6
Makarov37
Mass media1
Obsolete / dated2
Politics1
Pompous2
Proverb26
Psychology3
Quotes and aphorisms1
Rude1
Scientific1
Slang2
Sports1