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pulling teeth



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Idioms and Phrases

see like pulling teeth .
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Example Sentences

Take care in your choice of a life partner, for one of your nature can get in easily, but it is like pulling teeth to get out.

It was like pulling teeth to get information out of him, but Jim applied the forceps.

I'll have to ask you folks because it's like pulling teeth to get any news out of my husband.

I suppose he is now selling tinctures, pulling teeth, and driving away rheumatics.

Their instruments for pulling teeth were crude and caused the greatest of pain, often breaking the jaw.

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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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