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in one's teeth

in one's teeth prepositional phrase: of the wind, blowing straight from the direction, or desired direction, of travel.

Prepositional phrase

in one's teeth

  1. Of the wind, blowing straight from the direction, or desired direction, of travel.
    • The whole of the next day we were obliged to stop near the village of Tidore, owing to a strong wind right in our teeth.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 26

Questions about in one's teeth

What does in one's teeth mean?
In one's teeth means of the wind, blowing straight from the direction, or desired direction, of travel.
What part of speech is in one's teeth?
In one's teeth is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in one's teeth in the dictionary

  1. in one's sight
  2. in one's sights
  3. in one's sleeve
  4. in one's stead
  5. in one's teens
  6. in one's teeth
  7. in one's tracks
  8. in one's wildest dreams
  9. in open court
  10. in open store
  11. in operation

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