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in the teeth of1Directly against (the wind): in the teeth of the gale we set off for the farm...- It's cold outside, and I won't be climbing those valleys today, in the teeth of that wind which always seems to be funnelling down from the colder heights.
- Yesterday was a very long day in the teeth of a cold wind and the occasional shower.
- Some loon, an observer would say, mumbling to himself, clothing torn, hair matted with blood, the cut over his right eye probably still bleeding, staggering towards another impossible hill in the teeth of an impossible wind.
1.1In spite of (opposition or difficulty): the firm has expanded its building contracting division in the teeth of recession...- Over 300,000 miners went out on strike to defend their living standards in the teeth of opposition from their union leaders.
- Bradford Council awarded Brighton-based UZ a three-year contract to run the annual festival in the teeth of opposition from local organisers who founded the event and ran it on a not-for-profit basis for many years.
- Those who marched, therefore, did so out of a profound sense of conviction that this was an unjust war and a crime against humanity and in the teeth of almost universal opposition from the political establishment.
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