gnash your teeth

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• gnash your teeth — gnash (your) teeth to show you are angry or annoyed about something bad that you cannot do anything to stop. His advisers are gnashing their teeth in frustration because he refuses to attack his opponent on foreign policy issues. Usage notes:… …   New idioms dictionary

• gnash your teeth — often humorous 1) to protest about something in an angry way 2) to bite your teeth together and from side to side because you are very angry …   English dictionary

• gnash — [næʃ] v [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: Probably from the sound] gnash your teeth to be very angry or unhappy about something, or to move your teeth against each other so that they make a noise, especially because you are unhappy or angry …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• gnash — [ næʃ ] verb gnash your teeth OFTEN HUMOROUS 1. ) to protest about something in an angry way 2. ) to bite your teeth together and from side to side because you are very angry …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• gnash teeth — gnash (your) teeth to show you are angry or annoyed about something bad that you cannot do anything to stop. His advisers are gnashing their teeth in frustration because he refuses to attack his opponent on foreign policy issues. Usage notes:… …   New idioms dictionary

• gnash — verb (T) gnash your teeth to move your teeth against each other so that they make a noise, especially because you are unhappy or angry gnash noun (C) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• gnash — UK [næʃ] / US verb Word forms gnash : present tense I/you/we/they gnash he/she/it gnashes present participle gnashing past tense gnashed past participle gnashed gnash your teeth …   English dictionary

• gnash — [[t]næ̱ʃ[/t]] gnashes, gnashing, gnashed PHRASE: V inflects If you say that someone is gnashing their teeth, you mean they are angry or frustrated about something. If Blythe heard that piece, I bet he was gnashing his teeth... If you couldn t… …   English dictionary

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