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单词 to have one's eyeteeth
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to have one's eyeteeth (about one)
P3. to have one's eyeteeth (about one) and variants: to be shrewd, capable, or mentally alert. Cf. to have one's wits about one at wit n. 3c. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > be or remain awake [verb (intransitive)] > or alert
to have one's eyeteeth (about one)1713
to be a (full) wake-up1930
1713 C. Dodd Hist. Eng. College Doway 10 Parsons had all his Eye-teeth, and fail'd not to make a Hand of all these Civilities.
1730 H. Morice Let. 14 Jan. in F. Atterbury Misc. Wks. (1798) V. 147 There is no dealing with him without having one's eye-teeth.
1795 Tomahawk! 9 Nov. 45/1 You will find I had all my eye-teeth about me.
1844 Med. Times 30 Nov. 173/1 He had not only got his eye-teeth about him..but had cut his wisdom-teeth on board ship.
1877 Cheshire Observer (Chester) 2 June It reads as a warning that no one need go in search of the situation who has not her ‘eye teeth about her’.
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