| 释义 |
like pulling teeth informal Used to convey that something is extremely difficult to do: it had been like pulling teeth to extract these two small items from Moore...- Before his career took off, pulling girls was like pulling teeth.
- Journalists are writing over and over again that this is the most secretive military campaign in history, and that getting information from you and your colleagues is like pulling teeth.
- Here's something new to be struggling with apart from shorthand (which is still like pulling teeth - two and a bit weeks to go, it's getting down to the wire).
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