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Eye-teeth

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The canine teeth are so called because their fangs extend upwards nearly to the orbits of the eyes.

To draw one’s eye-teeth. To take the conceit out of a person; to fleece one without mercy; to make one suffer loss without seeing the manœuvre by which it was effected.

“I guess these Yanks will get their eye-teeth drawn if they donʹt look sharp.”—W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, vol. i.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Exter
Extinct Species [since the time of man]
Extravagantēs Constitutionēs
Extreme Unction
Extremes Meet
Extricate
Exult (Latin)
Eye
Eye-service
Eye-sore
Eye-teeth
Eye of a Needle
Eye of Greece (The)
Eye of the Baltio (The)
Eye of the Storm
Eyes
Eyed
Eyre
Eyre (Jane)
Ezour Veda or Yajûr Veda
Ezzelin
F