Meaning of olla otsaa | Babel Free

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to have the nerve, have the gall [with first infinitive ‘to do’] (do something that the speaker considers impudent)

idiomatic, impersonal, with-adessive

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“Hänellä oli otsaa pyytää lainaa, vaikka ei ollut maksanut edellisestä edes korkoja.”

He had the nerve to ask for a new loan, even though he had not even paid the interest on the old one.

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