Millions would give their eyeteeth for jobs so that they can get married and raise a family.

Bell makes clear in his writing that from his research the physical function of the "snarling muscles" are "quite peculiar to the ferocious and carnivorous animals" whose "sole office is to raise the upper lip from the canine teeth." (30) Nevertheless, it is in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) that Darwin discusses the significance of the snarling muscles in the dog most fastidiously: "When a dog is on the point of springing on his antagonist," he observes, "he utters a savage growl; the ears are pressed closely backwards, the upper lip is retracted out of the way of his teeth, especially his canines." (31) The vampire hunters' encounter with Dracula evokes "a horrible sort of snarl" from the vampire, which shows his "eyeteeth long and pointed" (Dracula 393).

NM and NCM did their usual funny faux fight for us with NCM saying what I have heard her say 50 times: "We never fight when others are not around; Norman just likes to put on a show." With a big toothless laugh showing his eyeteeth, he agreed.

"When I was starting out in community newspapers, I would have given my eyeteeth to have somebody I could ask questions to and whose learnings I could take advantage of," he says.

There's a lot of women who would give their eyeteeth to meet someone like you so stop apologising.

I knew my mistake as soon as the arrow hit, and I would have given my eyeteeth to have the shot opportunity again.

As one commentator noted, "one of the reasons that business people in Hollywood are so nervous is that they never really know what's going to win or what's going to lose." Posting of Paul Schmelzer to Eyeteeth: A Journal of Incisive Ideas, The Anarchist in the Library: Discussing Cultural Democracy with Siva Vaidhyanathan, http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2003/04/ anarchist-in-library-discussing.html (Apr.

So we saw cocktail dresses that every young woman from St Tropez to Shanghai would give their eyeteeth for: with a secretive little belt running around the front and disappearing through a hole at the back, the backs cut down to there, and a beautiful drape in the fabric pinning the focus squarely on one perfect bare shoulder.

With each of her sexual adventures, Isabel's eyeteeth grow longer and longer.

While most actresses would give their eyeteeth for the security of a role in what Roberta describes as "relentless wallpaper television", she insists she won't miss the show, saying it's "not natural" for an actor to be in work all the time.

Initially developed in the 1950s to meet the demand for a new generation of parts, the five-axis machining center cut its eyeteeth on aircraft impellers, medical tools and appliances, customized cutting tools, and other applications that would be impossible or impractical to produce without five-axis capability.

NHS dentists are becoming so rare, some of us would give our eyeteeth to be able to find one.

When our daughter, Jessica, was little, we would have given our eyeteeth to have a book/toy like this available for her to entertain herself quietly while at church or in a doctor's office.

The ruffled skirt of her dress was turned inside out on one side; her thin arm was covered with x's and o's drawn in green felt tip marker; her cowlick made her thick bark-brown bangs hang crooked and her eyeteeth were too big for her mouth.