jaw-jutting confidence
- noun
:
confianza desafiante
- He strode into the meeting with jaw-jutting confidence that silenced his critics.
Examples
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Her jaw-jutting confidence impressed everyone at the meeting.
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The candidate’s jaw-jutting confidence was both admired and resented by his opponents.
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Her jaw-jutting confidence made her the natural leader of the team.
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He walked into the room with jaw-jutting confidence!
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He strode into the meeting with jaw-jutting confidence that silenced his critics.
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Her jaw-jutting confidence made her the natural leader of the team.
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The candidate's jaw-jutting confidence was both admired and resented by his opponents.
Antonyms
How Confident
133
4.8
4
3.5
456
2.1
7
4.2
∞
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
jaw-jutting + confidence
The phrase is built from a body part + participle ('jaw' + 'jutting' = jaw sticking out) combined with 'confidence', so the literal sense 'confidence shown by a protruding jaw' is largely compositional. However, mapping that posture to the pragmatic trait 'especially assertive or bold' requires a cultural/pragmatic inference and the verb 'jut' is less frequent, so the exact evaluative meaning is only partially predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Jaw-jutting confidence may come from the image of someone pushing their jaw forward so it is jutting, a bold, forward posture. That way of standing makes the person look very sure of themselves, so the phrase means a visible, bold kind of 'confidence'.