rare as hen's teeth

adj

Etymology

Since chickens lack teeth, the simile implies that something is rare.

Definitions

  1. Extremely uncommon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rare as hen's teeth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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