Idiom
make someone's teeth itch
Meaning
To bother or unsettle a person; to put someone on edge.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His humming really makes my teeth itch.”
“The way she chews with her mouth open makes his teeth itch every time they eat together.”
“There was something about the man's false cheerfulness that made her teeth itch, a subtle wrongness she could not name but could not ignore.”
Examples
simple
“His humming really makes my teeth itch.”
contextual
“The way she chews with her mouth open makes his teeth itch every time they eat together.”
complex
“There was something about the man's false cheerfulness that made her teeth itch, a subtle wrongness she could not name but could not ignore.”
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