eyetooth
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British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
A snob, a bully and a coarser man than his creator seems to believe, Brad has a Southernness as sensitive as an aching eyetooth.
From Time Magazine Archive
"For every Greenfield, there are literally scores of other communities who would give their eyetooth for a Wal-Mart store," says Wal-Mart spokesman Don Shinkle.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he also knew that when a dog lowers his head and growls, showing his eyetooth, he means business.
From His Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson
Having practiced many times before a mirror, he did not think that any possible watcher would have noticed how his thumb slipped briefly inside his mouth to give one eyetooth a slight twist.
From The Wedge by Fyfe, Horace Brown
Many major museums, Schaffner says, “would give eyeteeth for these works today.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
"Elektra is a piece that conductors would give their eyeteeth to conduct and I've given that piece away three times during my time," he laughed.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023
Palmer told the Chicago Tribune in 1999 that Dench “is an actress who anyone would give their eyeteeth to work with.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2020
“That boost in the memory system is something that many of us in neuroscience would give our eyeteeth to achieve,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
Her teeth were large and crooked, eyeteeth missing.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
