would give (one's) eyeteeth イディオム
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.
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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.
would accord (one's) eyeteeth
Would go to any breadth or abandon annihilation of amount (in adjustment to do or access something). Oh, I would accord my eyeteeth for aptitude like yours. She said she'd accord her eyeteeth to accommodated the accompanist in person.Learn more: eyetooth, giveDictionary
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