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#1 2006-11-07 11:21:26

Peter Forster
Eggcornista
From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1222

'high teeth' for 'eye teeth'

Googling for ‘high teeth’ gives too many tools and sawing hits. There is an idiom “I’d give my eye teeth for…” so:
‘my eye teeth’ 23,000 ghits
‘my high teeth’ 45 ghits
How widespread the use of ‘eye teeth’ for the canines is I have no idea but they certainly have roots which are ‘higher’ and heading for the eyes. Most examples seem to be UK based.

If I were a pollster , particularly given the record of the polls in the last 15 years , I ’ d give my high teeth for it . ’ ’ ...
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1000010 … 0&refer=uk – 58k –

I ’ d give my high teeth to be able to go somewhere to wear something like that . . . it’s beautiful Sadley I think our local supermarket may call the …
forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=45706 – 82k –

It can take a long time to learn when there’s no one there to tell you and I for one would have given my high teeth for a lecture like this when I was …
www.prescottandmackay.co.uk/courses/foo … eminar.php – 11k –

It’s not that I have never wanted one, in fact on many occasions I would have given my high teeth, or Sheila’s right arm, for one especially when there has …
www.soon.org.uk/stories/the_wheelbarrow.htm -

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