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gnash teeth

verb as in snarl

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As for crime, the canned response of the District’s political leadership is to gnash teeth, deplore violence, attend funerals, hug survivors and quickly return to the business at hand: scheming and dreaming up programs and projects to which they can point with pride.

If you’re AT&T, a deep-pocketed national telecom giant watching national policymakers gnash teeth and rend garments about the proposed $42 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, what would you do?

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There will be plenty of time to gnash teeth in the long winter ahead.

The fiercest cowards that ever skulked, The cowardliest hounds that ever lapped Blood, if their horde be tracked and trapped, And justice claim their lives for mulct, Gnash teeth that flashed and snapped.

That if the devil should be too hard for thee, and deceive thee, by persuading thee to embrace, or entertain a new gospel, which neither Christ nor his disciples did allow of, it would make thee gnash teeth when it is too late.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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