the nerve of someone

I feel like we certainly have hit the nerve of the show, and we're doing pretty well.

The nerve of that man trying to buy his way to my party!

A crisis may happen only if the nerves of the leaders give way.

"I can't believe the nerve of them, they came right up to the door and took him."

Moments like these were hard on the nerves of those who had no ability to see into the future.

Then the nerves of the blacks could stand no more.

Unfortunately the nerves of her parents couldn't wait that long!

In the end, the tent held, and so did the nerves of officials.

Imagine the nerve of those players, thinking they have a right to their own names.

Some people have got the nerve of an army mule!

The nerves of both men seemed at the snapping point.

I remember her saying, The nerve of him treating me that way.

Judge did not have the nerves of a professional killer.

The nerve of America, exposing you to death that way.

That's because the nerves of the hands are so sensitive to pain.

The nerve of you to run off these last four months and to be causing so much trouble.

Imagine the nerve of making up patients just to publish an article!

The sound grated on the nerves of the man who stood directly behind them.

God, the nerve of me to ask her to do this, he thought, defeated.

The nerve of him, challenging her to such a bet.

The nerve of the man to ask me for an alibi!

"It is the nerve of modern life," an Iraqi power station director told me.

"The nerve of some citizens to petition their government," he wrote.

Fact is, it was the nerves of the men that grew tense.

After so many blows, there was no feeling left in the nerves of the soul.