Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English Middle (ca.1100-1500) term or phrase:
To get your jaws around
English Middle (ca.1100-1500) answer:
catchy, tricky, takes a lot of nerve/currage, hard to get, not easy to do/get your claws/paws on,
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Desco
Jan 24, 2008 13:10
16 yrs ago
English Middle (ca.1100-1500) term
To get your jaws around
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English Middle (ca.1100-1500)
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Linguistics
"Asking people to pay through the teethfor something you love so much that you'd do it for freeis a hard thing to get your jaws around"
What does it mean "to get your jaws around"?
To chew or bite ?
What does it mean "to get your jaws around"?
To chew or bite ?
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Feb 3, 2008 03:10: Desco Created KOG entry
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catchy, tricky, takes a lot of nerve/currage, hard to get, not easy to do/get your claws/paws on,
"hard thing to get your jaws around" would be the idiom, so you could take your pick. It basicaly means, in slang, that it is a dificult thing to do
Example sentence:
Asking people to pay you for things you'd do for free takes a lot of nerve
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