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back teeth
noun
▶ to the back teeth
to capacity; totally; completely AUSTRALIA, 1933- “Inked, blithered, full up to the back teeth,” chanted Waldo. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 202, 1947
- “No,” said Byrne, not hard enough to smart though, “it was that Hearn had us bewitched to the back-teeth.” — Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes, p. 238, 1967
- Thanks mate, you always played the game the way it ought to be played–competitive to the back teeth, but more importantly, like a gentleman. — Max Walker, How To Tame Lions, p. 49, 1988
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