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Eye-teeth
The canine teeth are so called because their fangs extend
upwards nearly to the orbits of the eyes.
To draw one's eye-teeth.
To take the conceit out of a person; to fleece one without mercy;
to make one suffer loss without seeing the manoeuvre by which it
was effected.
“I guess these Yanks will get their eye-teeth drawn if they don't
look sharp.” —W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, vol. i.
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