10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SET SOMEONE'S TEETH ON EDGE»
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set someone's teeth on edge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
set someone's teeth on edge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... see PULL. rare as hen's teeth: see HEN. set someone's teeth on edge cause
someone to feel intense discomfort or irritation. 0 This is an expression used in
the Bible to describe the unpleasant sensation caused by eating something bitter
or ...
... of a gale. lie in one's teeth see lie1. set (someone's) teeth on edge to cause an
unpleasant feeling of discomfort etc to someone: These sour grapes set my teeth
on edge; That shrill bell set everyone s teeth on edge. show one's teeth to show ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
2in spite of (opposition or difficulty): the firm has expanded its building contracting
division in the teeth of recession. set someone's teeth on edge see EDGE. –
derivatives toothed adjective, tooth-like adjective. – origin Old English to ̄th (
plural ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
2 his daughter's shrill, childish voice jarred on him: grate on, set someone's teeth
on edge; irritate, annoy, upset, irk, exasperate, nettle, vex, disturb, rattle,
discompose; jangle; informal rile, aggravate, get on someone's nerves, get
someone's ...
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Comprehensive English-Hindi dictionary:
... in a word, to get a word in with difficulty <r>f<J-ifli t f8 TO 1 To edge on, to goad,
to urge faTT ^TT, I To have an edge on, to have an advantage over someone *
TTfr HS-ll, §^tf ^Rf I To set someone's teeth on edge, to upset someone's nerves,
...
Bholānātha Tivārī, Amaranātha Kapūra, Viśvaprakāśa Gupta, 1998
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
... (something or someone) on (someone) to cause (eg dogs) to attack (someone)
: He set his dogs/men on me. set one's seal on see seal, set one's sights on see
sight. set (someone's) teeth on edge see teeth. set the record straight see record.
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
set someone's teeth on edge 1 to cause them a sharp pain in the teeth, eg when
they eat something very cold. 2 to cause them to wince. 3 to irritate them severely.
• take the teeth out of something to make it harmless. • tooth and nail fiercely ...
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Oxford American Desk Dictionary & Thesaurus
2 grate, set someone's teeth on edge, irritate, annoy, get on someone's nerves. 3
clash, conflict, contrast, be incompatible, be at variance, be at odds. I jar-ring adj.
jar-di-ni'ere /,jardn'i(a)r, ,zHardn'ye(a)r/ > n. an ornamental pot or stand for ...
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Pocket Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus
2 grate, set someone's teeth on edge, irritate, annoy, get on someone's nerves. 3
clash, conflict, contrast, be incompatible, be at variance, be at odds. I jar-ring adj.
jar-cli-niére /,jardn'i(a)r, ,zHardn'ye(e)r/ > n. an ornamental pot or stand for ...
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
3 the tune is beginning to grate: irritate, set someone's teeth on edge, jar; annoy,
nettle, chafe, fret; informal aggravate, get on someone's nerves, get under
someone's skin, get someone's goat. grateful adjective we were all grateful to
Rita: ...
