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eyeteeth

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I remind them that their grandparents would have given their eyeteeth for the vaccines they blithely shrug off.

From New York Times

Her teeth were large and crooked, eyeteeth missing.

From Literature

It was a fitting image for the way Junchang lived—both whimsical and up to his eyeteeth in work.

From Scientific American

“That boost in the memory system is something that many of us in neuroscience would give our eyeteeth to achieve,” he said.

From New York Times

Others called him Dracula, in reference to his prominent eyeteeth, or Comrade Leung, for his loyalty to the Communist Party.

From Washington Post