cut teeth

Idioms  

1. see cut one's teeth.

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Example Sentences

Medical professionals cut teeth and tissue out of the then-20-year-old’s mouth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2022

The baby is teething, and Ma makes me put my fingers in the baby's mouth to help it cut teeth.

From The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

The large gear has cut teeth, and the pinion is of steel, working in gun-metal bearings.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

I had bought a huge saw-blade and cut teeth all down the back; these teeth fitted into a little cogwheel set to take the friction, and driven forward by the spring.

From Wanderers by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)

When the opening had been completed, they cut teeth in the knife blade and made a small saw strong and keen enough to eat through a link in their shackles.

From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas