2013年4月28日 星期日

cut one's teeth, real/with teeth, in the teeth of , put teeth in ...


 Put teeth in Google privacy fines
CNN International
(CNN) -- This week Germany levied a fine against Google for one of the biggest wiretapping violations in history. The fine? Less than $200,000. Google's net profits in 2012? More than $10 billion. Imagine a driver of a fancy car caught for speeding and ...



"France has no tradition of investigative journalism," Gerard Davet, one of the first true proponents of the trade, told Deutsche Welle. A gaunt, soft-spoken 44-year-old, Davet cut his teeth on political scandals at local daily Le Parisien before moving to national daily and journal of reference Le Monde, where he has been sticking those teeth, these past nine years, into Nicolas Sarkozy.


According to Caro, Johnson responded, “Well, what the hell’s the presidency for?”
This is the question every president must ask and answer. For Lyndon Johnson in the final weeks of 1963, the presidency was for two things: passing a civil rights bill with teeth, to replace the much weaker 1957 law he’d helped to pass as Senate majority leader, and launching the War on Poverty.



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cut one's teeth

Also, cut one's eyeteeth on. Get one's first experience by doing, or learn early in life, as in I cut my teeth on this kind of layout or He cut his eyeteeth on magazine editing. This term alludes to the literal verb to cut teeth, meaning "to have teeth first emerge through a baby's gums," a usage dating from the late 1600s.


in the teeth of ...
(1) …に面と向かって, さからって.
(2) …をものともせず, …に反対して.




tooth

Pronunciation: /tuːθ/
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Definition of tooth

noun (plural teeth /tiːθ/)

  • 1each of a set of hard, bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of most vertebrates, used for biting and chewing: he clenched his teeth [as modifier]:tooth decay
  • each of a number of hard, pointed structures in or around the mouth of some invertebrates, functioning in the physical breakdown of food.
  • (teeth) genuine power or effectiveness of an organization or in a law or agreement:the Charter would be fine if it had teeth and could be enforced
  • (teeth) used in curses or exclamations:Hell’s teeth!
  • 2a projecting part on a tool or other instrument, especially one of a series that function or engage together, such as a cog on a gearwheel or a point on a saw.
  • a projecting part on an animal or plant, especially one of a jagged or dentate row on the margin of a leaf or shell.
  • 3 [in singular] an appetite or liking for a particular thing:what a tooth for fruit a monkey has!
  • 4 [mass noun] roughness given to a surface to allow colour or glue to adhere: the paper used in copying machines is good as it has tooth and takes ink well

Phrases

fight tooth and nail

fight very fiercely.

get (or sink) one's teeth into

work energetically and productively on (a task):the course gives students something to get their teeth into

in the teeth of

directly against (the wind): in the teeth of the gale we set off for the farm
in spite of (opposition or difficulty):the firm has expanded its building contracting division in the teeth of recession

set someone's teeth on edge

see edge.

Derivatives

toothed

adjective

tooth-like

adjective

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