Kita kembali lagi dalam segmen idiom of the week yang berisikan artikel-artikel pendek tentang penjelasan idiom populer. Kali ini, idiom berlanjut pada a kick in the teeth, berarti sesuatu yang buruk terjadi pada Anda atau merasa bahwa Anda telah diperlakukan buruk.
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Misalkan Anda dikeluarkan dari sebuah pekerjaan hari ini, so Anda bisa bilang : I have been fired and that was a real kick in the teeth.
Contoh lain :
- My uncle said that he got a kick in the teeth because of the firing.
- Your phone can be lost and it will be a kick in teeth.
- When her proposal was rejected, I think it became her first kick in teeth.
- Jonna said that being expelled from her country was her biggest kick in the teeth.
- Our country got many kicks in the teeth in this conference.