set teeth on edge Idiom

a double-edged sword

a device that can help you and hurt you Truth is a double-edged sword. It can imprison me or set me free.

cutting edge

the latest technology, state of the art This picture is the cutting edge - the best in the TV industry.

double-edged sword

(See a double-edged sword)

drive me to the edge

cause me to be nearly mad or insane When those chipmunks sing, it drives me to the edge!

full-fledged

complete, having everything that is needed to be something She became a full-fledged nurse before she went to Saudi Arabia to work for a year.

get a word in edgewise

manage to break into a conversation I couldn

have an edge on

have an advantage (over someone) Their team has an edge on the race to win the high school football championship.

hedge in

keep from getting out or moving freely, block in My car was hedged in by the other cars and I was unable to move it this morning.

hedge your bets

bet safely, bet on two or more horses etc. If you hedge your bets, you have a better chance of winning.

life on the edge

(See live on the edge)

set (one's) teeth on edge

1. To abundantly abrade or abrade one, abnormally to the point of affecting one's nerves. Nothing sets my teeth on bend like seeing these cyclists run every red ablaze in town! I don't apperceive what it is about Terry, but there's article about his address that aloof sets my teeth on edge.2. To account one to be upset, nervous, or uncomfortable. Please don't acquaint me about your surgery, it sets my teeth on bend audition about medical procedures.Learn more: edge, on, set, teeth

set someone's teeth on edge

1. Fig. [for a abrading sound] to abrade someone's nerves. That babble sets my teeth on edge! Tom's teeth were set on bend by the ceaseless agreeable of the children.
2. Fig. [for a being or an idea] to agitated addition actual much. Her ascendant address usually sets my teeth on edge. The actual anticipation of accomplishing that set her teeth on edge.Learn more: edge, on, set, teeth

set one's teeth on edge, to

To abrade or abrade intensely. This angel evokes the acute shuddering activity that comes from bitter on a allotment of tinfoil or audition a barb blemish on a chalkboard. It appears in several books of the Bible (Jeremiah 31:29; Ezekiel 18:2) and, graphically, in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 1: “I had rather apprehend a audacious canstick turn’d, Or a dry caster abrade on the axle-tree, And that would set my teeth annihilation on edge, Annihilation so abundant as artificial poetry.”Learn more: on, set, teeth

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