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like pulling teeth
Idioms and Phrases
Very difficult, especially to extract information from someone. For example, It's like pulling teeth to get a straight answer from him .Example Sentences
As you might imagine, interviewing Lawrence and Vaughn isnât like pulling teeth.
Probably not, and we know it will be like pulling teeth to get the incompetent media to do so.
I didnât want to sit in a room and write lyrics and itâs always been a bit of like pulling teeth for me.
âGetting voice therapy covered by the insurance companies for transgender individuals is like pulling teeth sometimes,â Dion says.
âItâs like pulling teeth talking to these guys. âWhat would I get?â
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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