hens' teeth

The side roads there have very light traffic in comparison and pedestrians are like hens' teeth. Is the purpose to increase emissions from the thousands of vehicles that pass here daily?

RATINGS RISERS AFTER a couple of weeks where double-digit hikes were of the hens' teeth variety, there were a few horses who impressed the handicappers.

Bobbies' boots on the ground are becoming rarer than hens' teeth, and to see a policeman walking his beat is something of a rarity.

When the Chip purse hit the shelves of Primark a few months back, there was a frenzy as fans bought them in their droves and it became rarer than hens' teeth.

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Met Office records stretching back almost 60 years reveal White Christmases have always been as rare as hens' teeth.

Cutbacks have reduced parking wardens to the extent that they are as rare as hens' teeth.

Stuart Needham, an expert on bronze age metalwork, said, "Dagger burials of any kind are rare, and these daggers are hens' teeth rare, it was a very short lived fashion, certainly no more than a few generations.

"Crannogs are quite numerous in Fermanagh but the excavations are like hens' teeth so it is great to be given an opportunity to look at this particular one - It is always an eye opener," Hurl said.

My sincere apologies for not having written earlier but your estimable magazine is as rare as hens' teeth in the UK and it's only because a dear Texan friend sends me his cast-offs that I can find out what's what in shooting circles.

In those days, commemorative items were not produced at the drop of a hat as they are today and items commemorating this victory are about as rare as hens' teeth. However, a simple etched glass beaker will be offered for sale at Carmarthen Antiques Fair this coming weekend.

The factory at Castle Donnington, Derby, is working flat out to keep up with demand, although the sight of a Commando on the roads is still rarer than hens' teeth.

Original ideas in TV being as rare as hens' teeth (valuation pounds 10,000) (see endless palid variations on cooking, dancing and property), Antiques Roadshow has spawned plodding derivatives like Flog It, Cash in the Attic, Dickinson's Real Deal etc, which encourage punters to believe their junk has a price.

And I haven't lost my marbles because this limited production super car is still as rare as hens' teeth compared to some fire-red Italian metal and has a better chance of standing the test of time than many high street banks.

I'm talking rare-as hens' teeth, prime position seats for The Scissor Sisters.