PHRASE If you say that you would give your eyeteeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it. 渴望得到 [非正式]
She has the job most of us would give our eyeteeth for.
她有一份我们大多数人都非常渴望得到的工作。
The rent of our cottage is only one and threepence and it's like pulling eye-teeth to get it.
我们小屋的租金只有一先令三便士，要挣到它可真不容易。
He said he'd give his eye-teeth for a ticket to Saturday's match.
他说他极想搞到一张星期六的比赛票子。
You've no idea what you're talking about. Wait till you've cut your eye-teeth before you start advising the boss.
你还不知你在讲些什么。你还是等长大了再替老板出点子吧。
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