| 词汇 | like-pulling-teeth |
| 释义 | like pulling teethidiom If you say that making someone do something was like pulling teeth, you mean it was very difficult and they did not want to do it: 艰难的，艰苦不堪的 Getting her to tell me about her childhood was like pulling teeth.让她告诉我她的童年往事是一件十分艰难的事情。 Causing difficulties for oneself or others ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be a tall orderidiom be asking for troubleidiom be your own worst enemyidiom bother someone with something catch dig make it difficult for someone to do something obduracy open a can of worms overburden pitchfork someone into something sand shoot subject someone/something to something sucker punch swamp tall throw sand in the gearsidiom wrong-foot Examples of like pulling teethlike pulling teeth In my experience, it is likepullingteeth to persuade the board to do so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Just as well as most of his life seems rather likepullingteeth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Flood described the atmosphere as likepullingteeth and emotionally draining. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. That was a good song, but it was really likepullingteeth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A lot of songs are likepullingteeth, but this one just happened. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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