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Also, show one's teeth . Indicate hostility and readiness to fight, as in His refusal to accept my offer made it clear I'd have to bare my teeth , or In this instance, calling in a lawyer is showing one's teeth . This figurative term transfers the snarl of a dog to human anger. It first was recorded as show one's teeth in 1615.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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