Dental Phrases

Phrases

• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• Armed to the teeth
• As scarce as hen's teeth
• Back teeth are floating
• Bare one's teeth
• By the skin of your teeth
• Chinese fire drill
• Cut your teeth
• Did you Maclean your teeth today? (Maclean's Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Drill down
• Drill, baby, drill
• Fed up to the back teeth
• Get the bit between your teeth
• Get your teeth into
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Gnash your teeth
• Granny, what big teeth you have got
• Grit your teeth
• Hampsteads (Cockney rhyming slang for teeth)
• Hell's teeth
• In the teeth of a gale
• It cleans your breath while it cleans your teeth (Colgate Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Kerb drill
• Kick in the teeth
• Lie through his teeth
• Like pulling teeth
• Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth
• Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
• Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
• Set your teeth on edge
• Sink your teeth into it
• Sow Dragon's teeth
• Take the bit between your teeth
• Through clenched teeth
• You know the drill
• You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent (Pepsodent toothpaste advertising slogan)