Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Cast into One’s Teeth (To).

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Cast into One’s Teeth (To).

To throw a reproof at one. The allusion is to knocking one’s teeth out by stones.

“All my faults observed, set in a note book,

Learned and conned by rote, to cast into my teeth.”

Shakespeare: Julius Cœsar.

Cast in One’s Lot (To).

Cast of the Eye (A).

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