2021-02-10 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด T – Teeth

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2021-02-10

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด T – Teeth

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Teeth = ‘TEETH’

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions

Teeth

For no particularly good reason,

one has a toothache, not a teethache,

even if more than one tooth is hurting.

One also refers to a toothbrush and totooth marks,

although the brush works on more than one tooth

and marks result from the bite of teeth.

Teeth, the plural of tooth,

outscores the singular form in the number of hackneyed expressions

in which both appear:

“long in the tooth” (“old” “elderly”)

“tooth and nail” (“fiercely,” “as hard as possible”).

“a toothsome invitation,”

“by the skin of one’s teeth,”

“a kick in the teeth,”

“put teeth in (or into),”

“show one’s teeth,”

“put (or set) one’s teeth on edge,”

“to the teeth” (“entirely,” “fully”),

“to throw into someone’s teeth” (“to reproach”), and

“cut one’s teeth on” (referring to action during one’s youth).

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

To the teeth = adverb: fully, completely

Scarcely had his hideous laugh rang out but once, when I was upon him.

The brute was twelve feet in height and armed to the teeth,

but I believe that I could have accounted for the whole roomful

in the terrific intensity of my rage.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars, 1917

This phrase most often describes how someone is armed:

we can only assume that if the teeth are involvedin preparation for battle,

surely it's only after all other weapons are ready.

A similar but less common phrase, to one's teeth,

means "to one's face; openly."

In Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Laertes tells the King

"It warms the very sickness in my heart / That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, / 'Thus didest thou.'"