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The audacity to be wrong confidently and bill you for it anyway.

means Gall is bold, brazen nerve — the shameless audacity to do something presumptuous without a flicker of embarrassment.

from From Old English 'gealla,' meaning bile, the bitter fluid the liver produces — same root as 'gallbladder.' Bile was long thought to govern temperament in old humor-based medicine: too much of it made you bitter, rancorous, or recklessly bold. 'Gall' the organ-fluid and 'gall' the nerve are the same word — the sense just curdled from the physical bitterness into the figurative nerve of someone bitter enough not to care what you think.

origin
from bitter liver secretion, literally
body part
gallbladder stores the actual bitterness
usage shift
bitterness became boldness by 1800s slang
synonym cluster
nerve, cheek, chutzpah, same shameless family
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