COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
armed to the teeth (= carrying a lot of weapons )
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Many of the gangs are armed to the teeth .
bared...teeth
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The dog bared its teeth .
buck teeth
false teeth
false teeth/hair/eyelashes etc
lie through your teeth (= say something that is completely untrue )
sank...teeth
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The dog sank its teeth into my arm.
set smile/teeth/jaw
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‘Damn you,’ he said through set teeth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a kick in the teeth
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That is why the settlement of 4.4 percent. is rightly described as a kick in the teeth.
by the skin of your teeth
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Jeff just got into college by the skin of his teeth.
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The business is surviving, but only by the skin of its teeth.
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The car broke down on the way to the airport and they just caught the plane by the skin of their teeth.
clean your teeth
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Always make sure you clean your teeth properly, using a small-headed brush and only a pea-sized blob of toothpaste.
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And evidence shows that women feel more inhibited by things like not having cleaned their teeth or feeling grubby.
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Back in the en suite bathroom, he briskly cleans his teeth and brushes his hair.
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For the first time in her adult life, Polly went to bed without bathing or cleaning her teeth.
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How often do you clean your teeth, Miss Harland?
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Only drink bottled water - check the seal hasn't been broken - and use it to clean your teeth.
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She looked like a virgin who cleaned her teeth after every meal and delighted to take great bites from rosy apples.
clench your fists/teeth/jaw etc
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He clenched his fists and remained where he was.
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He clenched his fists even tighter.
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He clenched his fists in frustration and annoyance.
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He clenched his teeth together but the first syllable forced itself around the corner of his mouth.
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He clenched his teeth, pulled back his shoulders and began to stride up the road.
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I clenched my teeth, wondering what to do now.
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Papa clenched his fists and lips in the dark wood.
cut your teeth (on sth)
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He cut his teeth at places like Claridges; the Carlton, Cannes.
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Sutton and Packford both cut their teeth on the old hot-metal newspaper production process.
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The entrepreneurial owner cut his teeth on a Schweizer 300 which he still owns.
get the bit between your teeth
get your teeth into sth
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But meanwhile, her new role as fashion supremo is something she can really get her teeth into.
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Once the gila monster gets its teeth into its prey it will not let go.
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That O'Neill man isn't going to let up now he's got his teeth into it.
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We were both the sort of people who just can't let go once they have got their teeth into something.
gnash your teeth
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An unlikely assassin was left-winger Jason Wilcox, a youth team star while Dalglish was still gnashing his teeth at Anfield.
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But he has spent three or four years out in the darkness, gnashing his teeth.
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Gacbler and his colleagues would often be stymied by some problem, gnashing their teeth and getting nowhere.
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He kept baring and gnashing his teeth. 21.
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He laid her on the kang, wailing and gnashing his teeth.
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Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor, gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth.
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Then he threw up his hands and wailed and gnashed his teeth, for the world had already touched his father.
grind your teeth
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traffic problems that make us grind our teeth
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For a while a man ground his teeth horribly, only feet away.
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His jaw ached and he realised that he was grinding his teeth, so he released the muscles and tried to relax.
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I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery.
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It's my husband Deardrie - he keeps me awake at night, grinding his teeth!
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Mortally wounded, frothing at the mouth, grinding his teeth in pain, he chose the floor instead.
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She was grinding her teeth, until the taste of blood made her stop.
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Small Dave ground his teeth and spat into the daylight.
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Terry ground his teeth in consternation.
grit your teeth
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I guess I'll have to just grit my teeth and wait for things to get better.
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I was desperately unhappy in that job, but had to grit my teeth and stay smiling for the sake of my children.
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Rescue workers here have little choice but to grit their teeth and get on with the grim task of recovering the bodies.
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And a seizure makes you grit your teeth.
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He gritted his teeth against the demand of his lungs to burst.
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He gritted his teeth like a cliff.
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I gritted my teeth and went to work.
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Rory gritted his teeth, pulled.
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She continued to grit her teeth in silence.
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She would grit her teeth and take everything he threw at her - for the time being.
have teeth
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Critics of the law say it has no teeth and will not prevent violent crime.
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Because after the Anna Climbie case, the social services wanted to show it does have teeth .
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Frankly, I'd rather have teeth extracted than sit through either again.
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Is it only a paper tiger, or does it really have teeth ?
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It is important that it should also have teeth .
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The episode illustrates beyond doubt that the majority voting rules of the Treaty of Rome have teeth .
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The movement will have teeth to back its arguments.
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What can have teeth , of course, even if it is concealed by a friendly smile, is aid.
in the teeth of sth
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In the teeth of enormous social sanctions, women are making their own sexual choices.
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The state is in the teeth of the worst snowstorm in a decade.
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For I will, if I have to - and marry you in the teeth of them all.
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He walked right in the road in the teeth of advancing traffic and almost got hit several times.
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I simply do not have the manpower to make arrests in the teeth of such concerted action.
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In many places it advanced in the teeth of opposition.
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It means blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence.
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On stormy nights it had been exhilarating to fly in the teeth of the wind.
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Permission for the development was granted in the teeth of opposition from a vigorous local campaign.
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Science has to cling to the available evidence even in the teeth of seeming contradiction.
kick sb in the teeth
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Graham sitting there waiting for me to kick him in the teeth.
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I couldn't kick him in the teeth after three years of good work and live with myself.
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If he had come begging and pleading, I would have laughed at him and kicked him in the teeth.
kick sb's head/face/teeth in
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But they would kick your head in if you spilt their pint just the same.
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It goes with some people wanting to kick my head in.
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Lou and Van burst into tears and Hamburglar kicks their heads in.
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So they are all there, kicking our teeth in.
pick your teeth
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Hands to muzzle, he delicately picked his teeth.
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He began to pick his teeth with a toothpick.
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He was picking his teeth with a match while some one on the phone talked his ear off.
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The man sawed very quickly with one hand and picked his teeth with the other hand.
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There was a long pause while he picked his teeth and looked down into the seat of his chair.
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They were there at lunchtime and still there in the evening, just reading, picking their teeth, and watching.
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Well, pop a mint, our friends, head for the hills, and pick your teeth with a mesquite twig.
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Woolley picked his teeth with a matchstick.
sb would give their eye teeth for sth
set sb's teeth on edge
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His high-pitched squeaky voice set my teeth on edge.
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At other times their self-evident frustration sets your teeth on edge.
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He w as filing arrow heads, and the sound of the metal on the whetstone set Burun's teeth on edge.
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It was all done so genteelly that it set McAllister's teeth on edge.
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That set our teeth on edge and bring our goose pimples rising like porpoises after mackerel.
sth is like pulling teeth
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Getting the kids to do their homework was like pulling teeth.