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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 isn’t like pulling teeth.
Probably not, and we know it will be like pulling teeth to get the incompetent media to do so.
I didn’t want to sit in a room and write lyrics and it’s always been a bit of like pulling teeth for me.
“Getting voice therapy covered by the insurance companies for transgender individuals is like pulling teeth sometimes,” Dion says.
“It’s like pulling teeth talking to these guys. ‘What would I get?’
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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 Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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