armed to the teeth, fed up to the back teeth

如何把你家寵物武裝到牙齒？

家居PENELOPE GREEN2014年4月3日

美國人很愛他們的狗，可能因為過於溺愛，這些狗也變得越來越倦怠和邋遢，甚至有些還患上了分離焦慮症。不過，也正是這些棘手的問題激發了寵物用品廠商的創造力。

be fed up/sick to the back teeth： 片語（主要為英國或澳洲非正式用語），指對某情況拖延太久或對某事一再被討論感到厭煩或生氣，如He’s been treating me badly for two years and, basically, I’m fed up to the back teeth with it. （他惡整我已經兩年了，老實說我已經忍無可忍。）
When you are extremely irritated and fed up with something or someone, you are fed up to the back teeth.


俞智敏
A call has gone out for grandparents around Spain to down tools recently and go on strike - because they’re sick to the teeth of all that childcare.
西班牙全國各地的祖父母最近被呼籲停止工作，開始罷工，因為他們對照顧小孩已經厭煩到極點。


"但是，杜特爾特正在進行一場危險的遊戲。老牌霸主美國以及新興大國中國武裝到牙齒的軍隊，正在菲律賓家門口的水域對峙。美中兩軍在這裡的接近程度超過了世界上任何其他地區。固然，1億人口的菲律賓可以同時改善同美中兩國的關係，從而起到橋樑作用。但是，杜特爾特總統的冒險舉動，也有可能讓他陷入這場史詩般的地緣政治較量中而無法自拔。"

armed to the teeth

Formidably armed.

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

• The Bedford, a NATO battleship armed to the teeth, is on patrol in the North Atlantic when it receives two guests via helicopter.
• Two warriors, armed to the teeth, stand alert, ready to defend the demolition team in case of a raid by bandits.
• Twenty-two men exited the aircraft, all clothed in dark fatigues and all armed to the teeth.

armed to the teeth. ... The expression to the teeth meant “well equipped” in the 14th century, when knights often wore head-to-foot armor. The idiom, however, only gained currency in the mid-1800s, at first still applied to weapons or other military equipment.  Armed to the teeth | Define Armed to the teeth at Dictionary.com

to the teeth

1. Lacking nothing; completely: armed to the teeth; dressed to the teeth.