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pull teeth

verb

Definitions

  1. To extract teeth, usually because they are decayed or damaged.

  2. To do something that is especially difficult or effortful.

    • You will probably have to pull teeth to get a straight answer from a car salesman.
    • “We thought there would be a mad rush of students participating in these events, and it was like pulling teeth to get students to come out,” she recalled.

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No curated loop yet for pull teeth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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