set one's teeth on edge, to Idiom

a bite to eat

a lunch, a snack We can grab a bite to eat at the arena. They sell snacks there.

a bone to pick

something to argue about, a matter to discuss "Joe sounded angry when he said, ""I have a bone to pick with you."""

a fart in a windstorm

an act that has no effect, an unimportant event A letter to the editor of a paper is like a fart in a windstorm.

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a hard row to hoe

a difficult task, many problems A single parent has a hard row to hoe, working day and night.

a hot potato

a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it The issue of the non-union workers is a real hot potato that we must deal with.

a hot topic

popular topic, the talk of the town Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.

a into g

(See ass into gear)

a little bird told me

someone told me, one of your friends told me """How did you know that I play chess?"" ""Oh, a little bird told me."""

a party to that

a person who helps to do something bad Jane said she didn't want to be a party to computer theft.

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

Irritate, annoy, accomplish one cringe, as in That absonant beam sets my teeth on edge. This announcement alludes to the shuddering activity evoked by a annoying babble or agnate irritation. It appears in several books of the Bible and was additionally acclimated by Shakespeare. [c. 1600] 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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