Dentist Phrases

Phrases

• Access takes the waiting out of wanting (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• Accident waiting to happen
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• An accident waiting to happen
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• Armed to the teeth
• As scarce as hen's teeth
• Back teeth are floating
• Bare one's teeth
• By the skin of your teeth
• Chinese fire drill
• Crying Waiting Hoping (Buddy Holly song)
• Cut your teeth
• Did you Maclean your teeth today? (Maclean's Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Drill down
• Drill, baby, drill
• Fed up to the back teeth
• Fight tooth and nail
• Get the bit between your teeth
• Get your teeth into
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Gnash your teeth
• Granny, what big teeth you have got
• Grit your teeth
• Hampsteads (Cockney rhyming slang for teeth)
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• Hell's teeth
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• In the teeth of a gale

• It cleans your breath while it cleans your teeth (Colgate Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Kerb drill
• Kick in the teeth
• Lie through his teeth
• Like pulling teeth
• Long in the tooth
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth
• Open wide
• Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
• Play a waiting game
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
• Set your teeth on edge
• Sink your teeth into it
• Sow Dragon's teeth
• Sweet tooth
• Take the bit between your teeth
• The Mad Scientist (Nickname of Mike Leach)
• Through clenched teeth
• Tooth and nail
• Touched a nerve
• Waiting by the phone
• Waiting for Godot (play by Samuel Beckett)
• Waiting for Mr Right
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• Waiting in the wings
• You know the drill
• You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent (Pepsodent toothpaste advertising slogan)