like pulling teeth

like pulling teeth informal used to convey that something is extremely difficult to do 〈非正式〉［表达事情极为难办时的用语］ 太难了： it had been like pulling teeth to extract these two small items from Moore. 从穆尔那里弄到这两条小消息真是太难了。

• salinities
• credulity
• barometric leveling
• kangaroo ticket
• hookeys
• Klondikes
• on her（或its）beam-ends
• give someone a fix
• nines
• aasvogels
• Profs
• eternal
• executorial
• current saturation
• small grains
• turnpike
• low-residual-phosphorus copper
• veadars
• colpotomies
• aling
• Dinkas
• midterms
• ped.
• frustrates
• work your way through sth
• boldheartedness
• constant-speed propeller
• member bank
• eross
• race up
• arcade game
• peltately
• suggestibleness
• Homosclerophorida
• vegetal
• harpin
• Miliolacea
• command economies
• slap downs
• Agonomycetales
• unreflecting
• typal
• USP
• buy into sth
• Kerbela
• there is no help for it
• adjust sth to
• diverticulums
• superliners
• free-water elevation
• take a (firm) stand on (或 over)
• lower paleolithics
• retrim
• fwd.
• workgirl
• ablating material
• Toxasteridae
• whippy
• dehisces
• hareems
• put a negative spin on
• Gucci
• embalmment
• decresc.
• headphone
• late starter
• Dorylaimoidea
• break sth↔down
• publisher's imprint
• pollard
• anthologising
• land retirement
• blowing agent
• thankees
• yellow cross
• laylight
• airproof
• Indo-Europeans
• equation
• VZV
• droolers
• noddingly
• rack sth ↔ up
• jeweling或jewelling
• with clockwork precision / accuracy
• chuck sth↔away
• counterpart
• ostracizes
• turbomolecular
• double diffusion
• goalkeeping
• teaching hosptial
• ogling
• revolve around/round sth
• projective plane
• replicon fusion
• you wait
• silk tree
• shirt-suit
• poikilotherms