Cast into One’s Teeth (To)

To throw a reproof at one. The allusion is to knocking one’s teeth out by stones.

“All my faults observed, set in a note book,

Learned and conned by rote, to cast into my teeth.”

Shakespeare: Julius Cœsar.

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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.