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get one's teeth into

  1. see sink one's teeth into.



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Until then, though, there is still plenty to get one's teeth into - so long as the prospect of yet more remakes, reboots, sequels and comic book movies doesn't put those teeth on edge.

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It is a relief to get one's teeth into something, to have hard, definite occupation to distract one; indeed, it hardly seems to me in the light of a misfortune at present, so much as a blessed tangible problem to be grappled with and solved.

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