It was actually worse than pulling teeth because most of the time we had to fabricate the teeth and then pull them.
"Just to get them to vote is like pulling teeth, " she said.
Getting the clean-up plans in place, says an official from the World Bank, which is co-funding the project, has been like pulling teeth.
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"Last couple of years it's been like pulling teeth for this organization, both the fan base and some internally, watching the team play, " he said.
As there are no organised tours to Haiti from the Dominican Republic, and very few taxi drivers willing to take the risk, finding a well-disposed man-with-a-van in Santo Domingo was like pulling teeth.
Phrases like "pulling the teeth", "drawing out the poison" and, less vividly, "forcing the health secretary to make concessions" tip with practised ease from Lib Dem lips.
Trog, aka Wally Fawkes, has her as a jolly knockabout figure with tombstone teeth pulling pints in the bar of the TV soap "EastEnders, " but the angry brigade, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell of the Guardian and Dave Brown of the Independent, emphasize the grotesque.
So, when some of the old man's teeth needed pulling, he sat down at the kitchen table, knocked back a belt of whiskey, and yanked them out himself with a pair of electrician's pliers.
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