- to someone's teeth
- to someone's teeth▪ To someone's face▪ In direct affront● tooth
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
to someone's teeth
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set someone's teeth on edge — 1. To set up a disagreeable sensation in the teeth and mouth, as sour fruit does 2. To cause to wince, irritate acutely 3. Formerly, to make eager or stimulate desire • • • Main Entry: ↑edge * * * I (esp. of an unpleasantly harsh sound) cause… … Useful english dictionary
in spite of someone's teeth — or in the teeth of In direct opposition to • • • Main Entry: ↑tooth … Useful english dictionary
set someone's teeth on edge — ► set someone s teeth on edge (of a sound or taste) cause intense discomfort or irritation to someone. Main Entry: ↑edge … English terms dictionary
fling in someone's teeth — To fling at someone as a taunt or reproach ● tooth … Useful english dictionary
teeth — [tēth] n. pl. of TOOTH armed to the teeth or dressed to the teeth as armed (or dressed up) as one can be get one s teeth into or sink one s teeth into to become fully occupied or absorbed with in the teeth of 1. directly against; in the face of 2 … English World dictionary
make someone's teeth itch — verb To bother or unsettle a person; to put someone on edge. The squeaking won’t do any harm, but if it makes your teeth itch, oil the hinge … Wiktionary
set someone's teeth on edge — (of a sound or taste) cause intense discomfort or irritation to someone. → edge … English new terms dictionary
teeth — /tiθ / (say teeth) plural noun 1. plural of tooth. 2. the punitive sections of a legislation, ruling, etc., meant to ensure its enforcement: give a regulation teeth. –phrase 3. be fed (up) to the (back) teeth with, Colloquial to be heartily sick… …
teeth — For no particularly good reason, one has a toothache, not a teethache, even if more than one tooth is hurting. One also refers to a toothbrush and to tooth marks, although the brush works on more than one tooth and marks result from the bite of… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
in the teeth of — phrasal 1. : in or into direct contact or collision with : so as directly to confront or be confronted with headed north in the teeth of the steadily rising gale N.R.Raine in the teeth of conditions to drive a normal actor crazy Kenneth Tynan 2 … Useful english dictionary
