Chutzpah = Audacity + Panache

I was once told that chutzpah was like reading and enjoying a book in a book store and then not buying a book. This may or may not have been the last page of a book I was reading in a bookstore. The book may or may not have been called "The Optimist sees the Bagel, The Pessimist sees the Hole".

I had an epiphany today.

If audacity is talking back to the Queen of England and panache is epitomized by the scene from Cyrano de Bergerac about how to make fun of a prominent nose, then chutzpah ought to be a combination thereof.

I never said it was a good epiphany.