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📖 Определения и значения для слова tooth

📒 any of the hard white structures in the mouth used for biting food

  • I've just had a tooth out at the dentist's.
  • to brush/clean your teeth
  • tooth decay

📒 a narrow, pointed part that sticks out of an object

  • the teeth on a saw
  • The teeth of the cog should fit into these grooves.

📒 having many weapons

📒 to show your teeth in an aggressive and threatening way

  • The dog bared its teeth and growled.

📒 if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just manage to do it

  • He escaped defeat by the skin of his teeth.

📒 to do something that gives you your first experience of a particular type of work

  • She cut her teeth on local radio.

📒 to grow a new tooth

📒 used to say that you should punish somebody by doing to them what they have done to you or to somebody else

  • They advocate a justice system that works on the principle of an eye for an eye.

📒 to fight in a very determined way for what you want

  • The residents are fighting tooth and nail to stop the new development.
  • She fought tooth and nail to keep custody of the children.

📒 to become very enthusiastic about something that you have started to do so that you are unlikely to stop until you have finished

📒 to put a lot of effort and enthusiasm into something that is difficult enough to keep you interested

  • Choose an essay topic that you can really get your teeth into.

📒 used when you are saying that you want something very much

  • I'd give my eye teeth to own a car like that.

📒 to press or hit your teeth together because you feel angry; to feel very angry and upset about something, especially because you cannot get what you want

  • He'll be gnashing his teeth when he hears that we lost the contract.
  • The news caused great wailing and gnashing of teeth.

📒 to bite your teeth tightly together

  • She gritted her teeth against the pain.
  • ‘Stop it!’ he said through gritted teeth.

📒 to be determined to continue to do something in a difficult or unpleasant situation

  • It started to rain harder, but we gritted our teeth and carried on.

📒 to like food that contains a lot of sugar

📒 to be powerful and effective

📒 used to express anger or surprise

  • Hell’s teeth, I promised I’d be back by two.

📒 despite problems, opposition, etc.

  • The new policy was adopted in the teeth of fierce criticism.

📒 in the direction that a strong wind is coming from

  • They crossed the bay in the teeth of a howling gale.

📒 to treat somebody badly or fail to give them help when they need it

📒 something that hurts somebody/something emotionally; a great disappointment

  • The job losses are a kick in the teeth for the union.

📒 to say something that is not true at all

  • The witness was clearly lying through his teeth.

📒 used to say that it is very difficult to make somebody do something

  • It's like pulling teeth trying to get him to talk.

📒 old or too old

📒 involving opposition or competition that is violent and without sympathy

  • nature, red in tooth and claw

📒 to make somebody feel physically uncomfortable

  • Just the sound of her voice sets my teeth on edge.
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