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idiomtooth► an eye for an eye (a tooth for a tooth)fight tooth and nailto try very hard to achieve something, especially when someone is trying to prevent you:Cricket officials and local residents will fight tooth and nail to save the sports ground.Beattie fought tooth and nail to be allowed to see his clients in jail, and even then, could only see them one at a time.have a sweet toothto like sweet foods:Those with a sweet tooth will love Delight low-fat Vanilla and Chocolate ice cream.I've got a very sweet tooth when it comes to chocolate and things, but I don't like sweet popcorn.long in the toothused in order to say that someone or something is old, or too old:You seem rather long in the tooth to be a trainee.The printer is a little long in the tooth, but the rest of the equipment is fine.nature red in tooth and claw BrEBrEused in order to say that the natural world can be violent and nasty:Landseer became rich by painting nature red in tooth and claw.Man has evolved by the process of nature - and of nature red in tooth and claw.
See:- (as) clean as a hound's tooth
- (as) rare as hens' teeth
- (as) scarce as hens' teeth
- a fine-tooth comb
- a sweet tooth
- an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
- an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
- be long in the tooth
- clean as a hound's tooth
- cut a tooth
- fight hammer and tongs
- fight tooth and claw
- fight tooth and nail
- fine-tooth comb
- fine-tooth comb, to go over with a
- go at each other tooth and nail
- go at it tooth and nail
- go at one another tooth and nail
- go over (something) with a fine-tooth comb
- go over with a fine-tooth comb
- go over/through something with a fine-tooth comb
- go through (something) with a fine-tooth comb
- have a sweet tooth
- hen's tooth
- long in the tooth
- love-tooth in the head
- rarer than hens' teeth
- red in tooth and claw
- scarcer than hens' teeth
- sweet tooth
- sweet tooth, (to have) a
- take the bear by the tooth
- tooth and nail
- tooth and nail, fight/with
- tooth fairy
- with a fine-tooth comb
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