eyeteeth Idiome
cut one's eyeteeth on
Idiom(s): cut one's eyeteeth on sthTheme: TRAINING
to have done something since one was very young; to have much experience at something. (Folksy.)
• Do I know about cars? I cut my eyeteeth on cars.
• I cut my eyeteeth on Bach. I can whistle everything he wrote.
eyeteeth
eyeteethsee give one's eyeteeth.
give one's eyeteeth
give one's eyeteethAlso, give one's right arm. Go to any lengths to obtain, as in She'd give her eyeteeth for a mink coat, or He'd give his right arm for a new car. These hyperbolic expressions both allude to something precious, the eyeteeth (or canines) being useful for both biting and chewing and the right arm a virtual necessity for the 90 percent of the population who are right-handed. Both date from the first half of the 1900s, when the first replaced give one's eyes, from the mid-1800s.
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