pull or teeth
pull someone's or something's teeth
Fig. to reduce the power or efficacy of someone or something. The mayor tried to pull the teeth of the new law. The city council pulled the teeth of the new mayor.
See also: pull, teeth
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- grit one's teeth, to
- drop (one's) teeth
- drop one’s teeth
- drop teeth
- lie through one's teeth, to
- get one's teeth into (something), to
- set one's teeth on edge, to
- fed to the teeth
- hell's teeth
- sink one's teeth into, to