pulling teeth

1. see like pulling teeth.

Example Sentences

Now, it’s like pulling teeth to get a shark film with more than one decent creature shot — the 300 razor-sharp teeth of a great white, to be exact.

From Salon

"I've learned that love doesn't have to be this thing of high highs and low lows – fighting and pulling teeth just to stay together," he says.

From BBC

As you might imagine, interviewing Lawrence and Vaughn isn’t like pulling teeth.

From Los Angeles Times

Probably not, and we know it will be like pulling teeth to get the incompetent media to do so.

From Salon

I didn’t want to sit in a room and write lyrics and it’s always been a bit of like pulling teeth for me.

From Seattle Times