guts
courage, boldness
TRANSLATION
guts = der Mut (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX guts: approximately 13,500,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
It takes a lot of GUTS to put mechanisms in place that encourage sharing opinions of faulty products or procedures. It takes even more courage to create systems that track and respond to negative feedback and yield desired improvements.
(eWeek.com)
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I hate people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the GUTS to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg, Swedish writer, playwright and painter
(eWeek.com)
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I hate people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the GUTS to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg, Swedish writer, playwright and painter
Did you
know?
guts
noun
- bravery; the ability to control fear and to deal with danger and uncertainty
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Gut, and the plural guts, derives from the Old English guttas, meaning bowels or entrails. The gut or guts is generally used to describe the digestive tract (the stomach and intestines).
In a figurative sense, guts can also refer to the inner working parts of any object (the guts of the computer, the guts of the car), intuition (to have the gut feeling…) or it can be used as a synonym for courage.
This last sense comes from the feeling one experiences in the "pit" of the stomach when facing fear. Thus if someone has the guts to do something, the implication is that they can easily deal with this sensation, which translates into courage. Stomach is also used in this context (He didn’t have the stomach to admit his mistakes. She couldn’t stomach the thought of going to the dentist.) And then there is the belly, slang for stomach.
Though outdated, the expression "yellow-bellied" was a favourite way to describe a coward in the American Wild West (yellow has long been associated with cowardice and treachery).
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SYNONYMS
(courage)
audacity, backbone, balls, boldness, daring, dauntlessness, effrontery, forcefulness, fortitude, grit, heart, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie, pluck, resolution, spirit, spunk, willpower
(stomach)
belly, bowels, breadbasket, intestines, middle, middle-age spread, midriff, midsection, paunch, pot, potbelly, spare tire, tummy
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
(cowardice)
apprehension, butterflies, cold feet, consternation, dread, fear, fright, heebie-jeebies, jitters, nervousness, trepidation, uneasiness, worry
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"At least he had the guts to tell everyone what he thought. Everyone else just sat there and kept quiet."
noun
- bravery; the ability to control fear and to deal with danger and uncertainty
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Gut, and the plural guts, derives from the Old English guttas, meaning bowels or entrails. The gut or guts is generally used to describe the digestive tract (the stomach and intestines).
In a figurative sense, guts can also refer to the inner working parts of any object (the guts of the computer, the guts of the car), intuition (to have the gut feeling…) or it can be used as a synonym for courage.
This last sense comes from the feeling one experiences in the "pit" of the stomach when facing fear. Thus if someone has the guts to do something, the implication is that they can easily deal with this sensation, which translates into courage. Stomach is also used in this context (He didn’t have the stomach to admit his mistakes. She couldn’t stomach the thought of going to the dentist.) And then there is the belly, slang for stomach.
Though outdated, the expression "yellow-bellied" was a favourite way to describe a coward in the American Wild West (yellow has long been associated with cowardice and treachery).
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SYNONYMS
(courage)
audacity, backbone, balls, boldness, daring, dauntlessness, effrontery, forcefulness, fortitude, grit, heart, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie, pluck, resolution, spirit, spunk, willpower
(stomach)
belly, bowels, breadbasket, intestines, middle, middle-age spread, midriff, midsection, paunch, pot, potbelly, spare tire, tummy
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
(cowardice)
apprehension, butterflies, cold feet, consternation, dread, fear, fright, heebie-jeebies, jitters, nervousness, trepidation, uneasiness, worry
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"At least he had the guts to tell everyone what he thought. Everyone else just sat there and kept quiet."
